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The last I heard, fwiw, is that for the next 5 years the only new aircraft added to the fleet would be used MD90s and that came from a LCA talking about their most recent meeting. The same one where it was mentioned the 88 pays for itself in 5 days and the 737 in 25.
I read that the first delivery of the airbus with the new engine type (not talking about Delta here, but just in the industry in general) will be in 2016. So the only new aircraft in the next 5 years wouldn't include that if it were actually in the plans.