Originally Posted by
EdGrimley
Just so I am reading you correctly, the net increase of 73 airframes will be 717's, 737's and a couple A330's while parking airframes from the 7ER and 747 categories? When you say the fleet will go from 559 to 667 in 2015 are you counting airframes (717's/737's) that have already arrived or from point in time now to 2015?
Do you see any growth in Delta pilot/ Delta metal international flying going into 2015 or more code share (ie we don't take ownership of our flying and are international ticket brokers) nonsense?
Ed,
They are counting them as the come. I had the same exact numbers form the LAX meeting including a snapshot from sometime 2014 at 614:
Mainline aircraft:
2009 - 594
2014- 614
2015 - 667
AS of 30 September we had the following number of 717s and 737-900s in service:
24 737 -900s in service
40 717s
So it looks the 594 was at or was near a mainline low in 2009, and the 667 number will include all or most of our orders through 2015 less the aircraft that we plan on parking.
Scoop