Simple math says 3200 divided by 8 miles a minute gives it a 6+40 range to empty tanks. That sound pretty domestic plus canada, AK, HI, central Am to me.

As far as comfort goes, we fly pax to europe in the 757 already. I flew it once on a 757 and it was painful, very painful, but it did beat swimming there.

Just thinking here, but isn't Alaska very highly rated when it comes to customer satisfaction? And they only fly 737s, right?

I admit, though, that I'm only on the Junior Varsity Delta Connection team, so what do I know?

I missed this picture.

Maybe they'll make the 739 2x3 seating!

Then it'll sit the same as the MD88. So it's just a long range MD88?! Just one costs $4M and one costs $80M but maybe $40M on discount or something.

Out of curiosity, as a wave of the future, if we configure our supposed 739s the same as say CAL or Alaska Delta Connection Airlines, then in first class we'll lose 6 seats and 10 seats respectively over say our 75Xs (the 752s with the seats).

The coach seating would be within a few seats of each other.

If you did the A321, which has two JS's I believe, is the same as the 739s.

They do and so do you guys obviously. That's why the airline works so hard to replace mainline with other airlines.

:D


I'm out to tweak everyone this morning.

Maybe to save money, they'll take some of the "features" out of the Maddog and put them in the 739. Things like the FMS, the VNAV - oh, and the brakes! Can't forget to move the brakes over.

What if DAL isn't buying but leasing the these planes? Maybe a good deal on short term leases until something better/newer is available..787ish or 737 replacement.

I'm pretty sure I saw something in one of the recent flight ops messages that said we were pulling the 75ERs off of the transatlantic ops because they weren't happy with them...although it might just be because we've been canceling service to most of the cities we used it on. That frees up some of our newest 757s for transcon stuff. I'm pretty sure we'll still be flying 757 transcons long after any 737-900s start showing up.

NTSB looking for information from public forums? Well, let me tell you something. Last trip we pushed off the gate in SAT and were given clearance to taxi to 12R. As we turned the corner and headed down the parallel taxiway a SWA 737 called and said they were ready to taxi and would take 12R at J.

Tower asked us to give way. We had to stop. And wait for the 737 to come out of the ramp to let them out.

As we sat there, waiting, our airplane almost exploded into a fireball.

There ya go NTSB, investigate the correlation between preferential treatment on taxiways and airplanes exploding into fireballs.

I did too. Wait, is that a guy's hand on her right cheek?