Originally Posted by dvhighdrive88
Unfortunately DAL's reaction to rising oil by parking 81 mainline jets and 93 RJ's by the end of 2011 points candidly at the direction the industry is going to go and it's going towards putting more market power in the hands of the airlines.
That fleet announcement was comparing
end of year 2007 to end of year 2011. Most of those planes were already being retired or have been retired. The biggest reduction in 2011 is coming on the RJ side of their operation. The mainly reduction will be 34 DC9s still in the fleet BUT an increase in MD90s and a few other international aircraft. So the mainline side of the house is not taking the big hit that the numbers you quoted might indicate...they were already planned or have already occurred.