Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
Mic drop right there.
HMV for an -88 is $4M. Apparently a HMV for a -90 is $22,000,000. It's a bunch of $ to pay for already depreciated, older, less efficient aircraft in a much smaller category. Sending them to the desert kinda makes sense but my degree was in marketing.
Plus, the MD88 and 90 are uncomfortable and loud from a pax perspective compared to other fleet types. The MD88, in particular, is a disgrace from the pax perspective - even Spirit A319s are more comfortable. Heaven forbid if you are unlucky enough to be seated in the last 10 rows of the MD88 - bring your Bose noise cancellers. Not "business friendly" like the Airbus, Boeing and incoming CSeries. If Delta really wants to become the airline of choice for business travelers, like the smaller RJs, it's time for the ageing 88 & 90 to be expeditiously retired to the boneyard....