All you can do is read the companies fleet plan. The wide bodies are planned for additional flying in the pacific. The possible narrow body purchase ïs in addition to the 100 737's planned as replacement aircraft. They are not planning to increase retirements at the mainline. They are however now planning a additional 25 50 seaters coming out of the fleet as those narrow bodies come online. The fifty seat fleet will stabilize at 100 airframes instead of 125.

We have 100 737's arriving to replace the 757's. in addition 25 of the 757's that are planned to be retired are all ready parked and not in revenue service. If Delta purchase 40 additional airframes via the two new RFP's we will put into service over 240 airframes in the next 4 years. We also hold options for 30 more 737's. the fleet plan has us parking 85 757's in that period. There will be some A320's parked in Addition to the 757's however the net gain in airframes should be around 130 hulls. That number includes the 90's not yet in service.

Yeah! Atta boy! Lets root for the worst. It makes us happy!

Sailing, I listened to Richards interview with Bloomberg and heard him say we would be down to 100 50 seat RJ's as well.

My question is how many 90's are left to be added? Also interesting that ATL concourse A&B have freshly painted lines for the 321

130 new hulls, please...

Over half of that number is already confirmed.

It was 16 a few months ago, I think its around a dozen now.

please continue..

Our new gates in San Diego have a321 spots as well. So that's like a dual verified bi-coastal rumor confirmation. SAN a321 pilot base while we're at it. Why not?

I have some friends that fly 321's at other carriers. They say they are pigs and have issues going east coast west coast. Can anyone in the know confirm or shoot this down? I figured with a plane with a decent size cabin shouldn't have issues with that. Maybe there are different engines that might be better than others