Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Right up your alley is an order for 200+ish E195's/Cseries, even if Delta was able to get all of the 717's built, 150ish, it would not be enough to cover the losses of DCI.
There's not going to be a "loss of DCI". A slow, controlled burn maybe, but there is no shortage of lift hardware available if they really want DL pilots to be the ones doing it, and it doesn't have to be any of the paper revolution vaporware jets.