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Old 09-17-2014 | 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by EdGrimley
Big order for big jets coming from Delta Air Lines

For the purposes of this article "Big Order" = 50 airplanes. Who knows when they will show up. Also, these could just be replacing the ones going away.
And they could be replacing existing lift on a pilot negative basis. It takes a lot less 330/777 block hours to fly the same number of pax that we do in ER's, especially if all we do is take them to a select few EU hubs and they transfer from there on our "partners" to destinations we used to, and still currently, fly to ourselves directly.