Originally Posted by forgot to bid

So thats why they wanted SOC.

You know when I go to the regional forum I kind of want to leave a rope or something here for you guys to pull me back. Just in case I end up getting killed and fall into limbo or something without my totem. But today, I went to somewhere just as bad, airliners.net, and came away with this:

DAL767-400ER (poster, I guess they don't use goofy names there)
Okay, let's see if my count is up-to-date now. So far, we have

16 Delta's own MD-90s
9 ex-China Eastern already in GSO and ATL for modding
3 ex-Hello's owned planes already in GSO and ATL for modding
11 ex-China Southern (don't know about the 2 China-built MD-90s; bought for spares?) soon to be on their way.
These 8 planes (obviously not officially identified, but really, who else could it be?)

That's a total of 47 planes, plus the 16 JAL planes, which will hopefully be made official soon, which would put the total at 63 planes, which is pretty much the minimum fleet number Delta looked for, IIRC.

Now the only ones left on the market are the 11 with the EVA group in Taiwan (not planned for retirement), SV's 29 glass-cockpit birds, and the 5 Lion Air jets.

Originally Posted by DAL4EVER

Shot across the bow to AMR. And so it goes. Glad to see and hope we get it!

Delta Air Lines Inc. wants to beef up its flight schedule from both Boston and Miami to London’s Heathrow Airport.
The Atlanta-based carrier said it filed applications with the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Transportation asking for the nod to have twice-daily year-round service between Heathrow and Boston and daily year-round service between Heathrow and Miami.
Delta (NYSE: KDAL) is pitching the flights as a way to add competition at Heathrow. It noted the oneworld alliance, which includes American Airlines and British Airways, holds 47 percent of Heathrow's takeoff and landing slots, while the Star Alliance, which includes United Airlines, US Airways, BMI and Lufthansa, has 25 percent of Heathrow's slots.
SkyTeam, whose members include Delta, Air France-KLM and Alitalia, holds only 5 percent of Heathrow's slots.
The slots for the new service at Heathrow are available after the U.S. and E.U. governments approved an immunized trans-Atlantic alliance between American Airlines and British Airways. The government required the airlines to divest some Heathrow slots to increase competition in the most tightly restricted markets.
If approved, Delta's Heathrow service from Boston and Miami would begin March 27, 2011, and would be offered in cooperation with its trans-Atlantic joint venture partners Air France-KLM and Alitalia.


Read more: Delta wants Heathrow slots - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Better play would be a DFW-NRT flight

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Dow closed below 10,000.

9985.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid

That dude has confidence, go with it!

Now the dude in the red shirt?

Who'd thought you could ever say "when throwing an axe long distances, try and look more like a man!"

Originally Posted by buzzpat

Hey guys,

My new book is coming out on September 7th and I will be on Fox & Friends that morning (this is not an advertisement moderators, just passing on some info) and possibly O'Reilly and/or Hannity that evening. If any NYC based DAL bros are around then, love to share some lies over some beers downtown. Just let me know.

Buzz