Originally Posted by
georgetg
First deliveries will be the CFM powered A321s with increased MTOW and sharklets... They become available late 2012, early 2013...
Phase II will be the replacement of the oldest A320s with A320NEO around 2016
Delta won't buy the C-Series. Too new, To little, too late and most of all too much... Why spend 30M+ on a 130 seater, when you can pick up 160 seaters for 10M/pop. That's a lot of cash for low single digit fuel burn/seat improvements.
In this case Boeing got nothing...except for a bunch of little brothers of the 160-seater looking for a home
My take as well - unless Boeing comes in with a really low capital cost for the 737, to make up for the higher operating costs (even with new engines) over the predicted time we use them. Then we might see more 737s.