The link I had is not working. Here is what I posted before. These numbers may change again soon. Perhaps another type!

This is the updated schedule as of 15 Aug. We will now have 23 A330-900 aircraft on the property by the end of the 2nd quarter 2022 plus two more A350’s. I was mistaken that the two new incremental aircraft were A330-300’s from WOW. They are new A330-900’s from a lessor. We get 7 next year vice 4 planned.

 

The whole open skies agreement isn’t fair. You're making my point for me. We give them access to our country, and get access to theirs. We give more than 4x what we get. It becomes slightly more fair because I believe the open skies agreement covers the entire EU, but a joint venture agreement with KLM/AF, gives them way more than we get right out of the box. That’s why the production balance is so critical.

And to the poster who said they’d rather ten flights to AMS than serving 8 other cities, if you’re saying 10>8 so it’s better, I’ll buy that. But when you find yourself laying over in Paris, 3-4 times a week, every week, and enduring that long @$$ bus ride every morning on arrival, you’ve officially taken all the fun out of international flying.

AMS is much better than CDG or LHR in my opinion, and if that’s how Delta can make the most money, I’m not complaining, but the variety of destinations made International flying a lot of fun not too long ago. If we can hold on to some of the variety, while focusing on our JV partner hubs, I’d be ok with that.

 

Thanks

And 20 A 220 30 A321 in 2020?

 

You make a good point about variety. I think alot of the angst from the fall of NRT is due to the loss of significant variety. That inter Asia flying looked incredibly fun. Going forward it looks like the 330 once you gain decent seniority will offer the most variety.

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The real fun of international flying is NOT going to work.


But seriously, agreed on all parts. I'd love some more variety, even just what we had a few years ago would be better than now. I specifically avoid CDG due to the bus ride and I've really got nothing for Paris anymore. AMS is a great airport, city and layover...if I were stuck with just one of our current layovers, it would be there. Here's hoping for profitable expansion into more locations.

 

UAL, AA and SWA should have a combined fleet of nearly 100 737 MAX by June 2020. We could pretend that the grounding wasn't a factor this summer and hire to 2019 demand or we can factor the 737 MAX return to flying and hire accordingly. What would you do if you were in charge of hiring?

 

I guess we're going with more A350s...

 

Looks that way. Say goodbye to the 777

 

So much for the rumors the company was disappointed with the 350.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-airlines-m-a-delta-air/delta-to-buy-20-of-latam-for-1-9-billion-in-regional-shake-up-idUSKBN1WB2UZ