Originally Posted by
sailingfun
They bought the aircraft because the JV they hoped to set up with China was planned to end up with 15 to 16 flights a day on Delta metal to China modeled after the AMS hub. That JV has so far not worked out so the forcus has shifted to Korea. The A330-900 is 50 million cheaper than the A350. A350 orders are being cutback to only 15. The A330-900 will be the big fleet.
Sounds pretty ******* clumsy. This isn't Africa we're trying to work - it's only the #1 market in the world and we're 1) giving up our nook at Tokyo and 2) now onto another attempt to work with someone in Korean.