Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
Better start thinking about all 16 acft and 450 pilots and what that will do to movement. I'm sure it won't all be this year and next, but unless this is some gambit to renegotiate leases or a pressure point over RFP prices at Boeing this is the beginning of the end for the 744. We still have a lot of retirements and I imagine an early out would mitigate it further, but either way we are looking at more stagnation, just a matter of how much
I doubt we will see widebody "growth" aircraft in the near or mid term. We'll be lucky to get 777-300's to replace
some of the 747's.
Anyone have an analysis of the average fleet-wide seating capacity at Delta? I'm fairly certain it's on a downward trajectory. It's perfectly okay -- as long as we're content to be a narrowbody airline that feeds out JV partners.