Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I've done some rj replacement and a lot of 88 replacement in 2 years on the 717. I even did DFW not long ago. We weren't popular.
but yeah 18 turns out of Atlanta this month and only 1 was a place I didn't go on the 88, BTR.
Your fleet has been a real good news story for Delta pilots.
When the B717 started coming on the property we had 117 MD-88 and if memory serves we had around 49 MD-90 on the property or ordered.
Now we've got 60 B717, with 31 more to go. The MD-88/90 fleet has grown from 166 to 181 aircraft. The mainline fleet is up 66 aircraft since C2012. The DCI fleet is down 150 aircraft. June 2015 mainline domestic block hours are over 320,000. In 2013 they were about 250,000, for a gain of 70,000 block hours to mainline.
You may fly to a lot of former MD-88 destination, but with the 29.5% mainline domestic block hour growth we've experienced I wouldn't call it replacement flying for anything but RJ's and the 21 DC-9-50's that were leaving.
Sources if you want to verify are the crew resources July update and the fleet booklet.