Interesting blurb in this article. Could that “reward” be ordering the 737 max? Thus jiving with the possibility of delta then giving up the Airbus slots to Spirit.



By Mary Schlangenstein and Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg. "Delta Air Lines is still holding out hope that Boeing will move ahead with a new midrange jetliner whose fate remains in limbo while the planemaker focuses on the crisis engulfing its grounded 737 Max. The carrier's chief executive officer dangled a possible reward to Boeing for proceeding with an aircraft that would be tailored for flights of about 5,000 nautical miles: potentially hundreds of jet sales."