Originally Posted by vyperdriver

I have been watching the bantering back and forth on the wide body fleet etc. and I realize if your just looking at 777 I could see folks point on the small number of pilots likely to ever get to fly it, however I compiled the list of aircraft types and numbers comparing United to Delta and it doesn't seem to me that we are that far off when speaking in terms of large and/or wide body hulls. Including the 757's from both companies according to wiki...United has 286 wide body (including 757) aircraft while Delta has 283. United has orders for 33 additional wide body aircraft and we currently have 52 on the books. So it would seem to me that we have a fairly decent sized fleet and contract discussions amongst the wide body aircraft are certainly relevant. What am I missing?