Been here over 20 years and while I do admire guys that are always positive and have "glass-half-full" outlooks on life...lots of Delta pilots are always foretelling a future with tons of WB purchases. Unfortunately, I have seen the opposite at Delta. Look at our WB ratio in 2000 and look at it now. We have been slowly getting out of the widebody business year after year. Like a falling stock, there may be some upturns to that trend here and there but an overall downward trajectory is what I have experienced. COVID proved to EB that we do better by leaving the WB flying to our partners (who have ratios that are way more skewed to WB than we do). ALPA has been misled by great sounding platitudes from our leaders but we continue to slide and put evermore Delta customers on other metal.

We may have some WB orders in the books but look at the NW A340s and 787s on order...what happened to those? In my short career, we have parked L-1011s, MD-11s, 767-200s, 747s and 777s. I strongly suspect the remaining 767s are soon to go as well as the older 330s. IF we receive all the airplanes on the order books, we very well may still be below today's count.