It will probably end up being 2 years from now 100 321 Neo and 100 max aircraft
In 10 years this is how I see Delta
Cs 100 and 300
737-900 , Max8 and max 10
Airbus 321 and 321 Neo
A 330 and a 330 Neo
A350

I'll be the contrarian and say that the 787 and 797 will end up in there...

booo.... dumb.

We're doing fine and the airline is growing in spades. What we do need to do is fight to keep that going in our favor.

I'd be willing to be that we'll see the 787 at the least amongst our ranks before 2025

I suspect that this order MAY get Boeing to commit to their M.O.M new narrow body and that will probably be on that list.

Hopefully everything DL orders from here on out has a headrest!!

And an intercom.

And a recall system!

And a speed tape.

The official announcement. 100 firm, with 100 options. Delivery starts 2020. PW’s are the engine.

http://news.delta.com/delta-selects-airbus-a321neo-narrowbody-fleet-renewal

Arent the PW the less desirable ones?

GTF - looks like same as the c series will have.

Yeah- NK had issues with a similar (not the same) variant voluntarily shutting down during cruise.

The HAL 321’s have the PurePower PW’s on their new etops 321’s. The assumption is that is what DAL is getting.

Plus- DAL has the luxury of 24 months of further tweaking and improvements being done by other carriers prior to delivery to ATL.

Stay tuned

It would seem the P&W overhaul component is pretty huge part of this deal.

Once the P&W design matures, delta tech ops will be positioned as the dominant overhaul facility for an industry standard engine.

Smart move. All our jv partners need to get their oil changes somplace. May as well be in our garage. :)

And im gona give our team the credit and assume built in economic offsets from AB/PW if the promised operational goals are not achieved.

Not to mention get their blinker fluid checked.

Pratts are fine, just a little sluggish.

"There goes Pratt ... (1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi ..)

and there goes Whitney."

Now apparently there are gears to turn as well.

The big Mexican overhaul facility will fit in nicely.

It will be fun watching the Airbus haters fighting over the shrinking Boeing jobs in the years to come.:p

73N will be the most senior plane in a few years:D

Do we know yet if these are the LR versions and is it safe to say that as the classic 321 and Neo 321 come on board anywhere you see a 757 now you will see that later?

200 if the options are exercised. This will be by far the largest fleet at Delta. Get comfortable with the idea that Europe is only an 8 hour narrow-body ride away. And I thought the 757 was bad on transatlantic flights.

Well now you know why wide-body block hours are set at the floor and not a ratio.

Bring on the rest facility grievance now, so we can get this over with.

Maybe we can get a lower lobe hidey-hole. Hope you French speakers aren't claustrophobic.

A321 hours dont count in block hour floor. These would be extra hours if flown across the pond.

Exactly. The floor is lower than current flying, with no mechanism to bring it up.

Other than all the other sections of scope....

My point is our widebody hours can't be robbed by A321 transatlantic hours. Do you understand the threat that would have existed without the protections of the block hour floor?

Do you understand the Macro trends across the Atlantic that will reduce those hours to the floor. Hopefully not below, like the AF/KLM EASKs that required a rewrite.

We are a narrow-body airline. Our partners will do the heavy lifting.

200 321s. 25, no 15 350s. 0 744s, Aging 777s.

They should be 10 years old by then....with that good used car smell.

Why did you choose to ignore the A330 & 767 fleets?

In service today we have 150 WBs. We have 42 330s, and we're supposed to get a total of 67. 330s+350s=92. 21 764s, 18 777s. 189 Widebodies including 763ER (58) which might be out in the next half a decade, which would leave us at 131.
I see at some point down the road needing another WB order. Thats just to stand pat with where we are today.

I don’t count the ER as a wide body......it has narrow body pay.

We have 28 321s flying right now.
94 more to go.
Then possibly 200 a321Neos.

322 A321s.
65 A320s
57 A319s

=
Yuge fleet of 444 A320 types

In pay the 767 and 757-300 are not wide-bodies but carry 230ish passengers. The diameter of the tube isn't really relevant anymore. The efficiency of scale is the real measure.

We will not expand traditional "wide-body" routes. Our partners on the other hand are ordering growth airplanes like 787s and 777-300s.

https://www.thestar.com/business/201...ce-routes.html

Sacrebleu!!! :eek:

My head hurts.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8o12WV6SkX...rief-model.png

Moreso than the ER ya think?


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ER will be gone. :eek:

Denial is where you blame the Russians.

Nah, but those will be gone long before the new 73n are.

In like 15 years


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ERs are getting pretty long in the tooth. Their retirement can’t be too far behind the MDs.

100 321 NEO Order
 

And I think I heard we brought, or are in the process of bringing 31 x 752s out of the desert

That was from an LCA after one of their last pow wows


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Second oldest fleet after the MD-88 is the A320. There's still 40-45 built between '90-'93 out there. I'm sure they'll soon be reincarnated as cans of water on Southwest.