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Old 03-23-2011 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg
RUMOR ALERT.....

Talked to a Delta mini-bus Captain heading off to recurrent today. He said rumors over in the 320 camp are stating a multi-billion dollar airbus order coming up, consisting of putting new engines and IFE systems in our current small busses, ordering over 100 new 320/319s, and up to 40 A330s. Airbus also wants to try to slip some A350s in there too as a part of the deal, maybe taking away some of those newer A330s. No 321s unless they put more powerful engines on them. That's what he said, and he also stated he loved the bus, and planned to stay on it forever.
I'm heading to recurrent Sunday. Rumor from the DC-9 camp... Delta has decided to bring all the -9's out of the desert, equip them with EFIS, GPS, air conditioning, and state of the art IFE systems. These aircraft will replace all the 50 and 76 seat RJ's and most of the 70 seat RJ's. I love the DC-9 and plan to stay on it forever!