Originally Posted by magiccarpet

Someone told me that Delta ended up spending way more money than originally planned to get the Temu 737s “up to standard” then it took years of write ups and flaps falling off (RDU) to finally get them reliable. So DL got burnt pretty good. When the Lion Air CEO inked that deal he had the same look on his face as I do when I return a rental car.

Because of this, it’s my understanding that they are not interested in taking over any used aircraft in the near future.

Also Ed just said at the last Velvet that the only thing DL is interested in from Spirit is gate space and engines FWIW.