The number of 777 at 35-50 is something that has been thrown around for some time. If you want a good answer as the Fleet Manager. He stated a while ago that if they could get their hands on used 777 they would be buying at least double what they are planning now.
Let hope that they can do that.

Not to pour any water on the thread but Anderson said in his town hall meeting he's planning on a total of 25 within the next 3 years. Thats not 50, but its a heck of a lot better than 8!

I haven't heard any specifics but apparently Delta isn't happy with AirInc and wants to do it's own job fair in conjunction with other legacies.

I have been searching the thread, and I could not find the post about aircraft basing at DAL. Is the 777 only out of ATL and New York?

Yes, the 777 is only ATL and NYC.

Not water poured. The 777 number keeps going up. Earlier this year it was 15 now it is 25. Hopefully they can get more on the used market that make sense for DAL.
Either way, 25 777 is a heck of a lot of movement with 16 Captains per a/c.

ACL: The 5 757's, 10 737's and 777's are all very good. But, I'm hearing 10 MD88's coming out of the fleet in 08. More CRJ700/900's coming to backfill and the MD90's put off, again. Confirmation, update? Big airplane rowth is good for us 07 hires, but upgrade slots are better still.

I'm concerned about Delta's increasing reliance on BIG RJ's to catch the MD88 flying in a downturn. Is the CRJ700/900 going to do the same thing to the MD88's that the CRJ200/EMB145 did to the 737-200's. APA seems to have the right idea - to capture that flying.

Well if it helps they can only have a few 900s' and they have to be configured to 76 seats with a two class configuration. The limited numbers will not be able to do too much replacing of maddog flying, but yes APA has the right idea..... if done properly.

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Where have you heard this? I'm on the 88 and I talk to people all the time.....the ATL CP, the 88 CLCP, the Fleet Captain, several sim instructors, union officials, etc, and I have heard nothing about 88s coming out of the fleet.... other than the 2-3 going back to lessors that were already announced.

By the way, the -900s are tied to mainline fleet growth. So if 88s come out of the fleet it would offset the -700s and 777s coming in and limit the number of new -900s they could get. I don't buy it.