I'm sure airliners.net has some insight into this, but man reading through all of the crap that their 17 year olds post there is obnoxious.

Unlike some of the sage prose on this forum?

This was one of the big items I wrote in on my survey. It's BS that we have a one way check valve on our scope. In the absence of recapturing OUR scope, the amount of "permitted aircraft" should at least rise AND fall with the mainline count. To set a new high water mark that does not subsequently recede is no good.

How stupid do they have to be to think that we would trade them out 737-700s? Ours do seem to be quite resistant to rolling all the way down large hills near runways in ATL, so that might be appealing.

I think Delta has noticed that the A319s can do the same job as the 737-700, just look at all of the replacements to Latin America and Caribbean routes from Atlanta.

Hopefully they notice more. One look at the ATL bid pack speaks that they don't know what to do with fifi.

We only have 10...

9 of them. It wouldn't surprise me if, in the event DL got 80+ 717's, that a good percentage (maybe even all) ended up being fleet replacements. 20 DC9's, 10 73-7's, a handful of 73-8's, a bunch of sold 73-8 orders and some 319/320 retirements would provide opportunity for continued "capacity discipline" because we wouldn't want to disrupt the massive order books of the LCC's or anything. We just have to keep shrinking faster than they grow to keep the profits up (until we get into the region of reverse command, but by then its some other bonus monger's problem).

Yeah, I know a guy who now flies for FDX whose been kicking the can as long as he can so he can use his benefits to non-rev. He goes around the world.

Tis true. We do get high schoolers from time to time that seem to regurgitate stuff dad said. You can kind of smoke them out pretty fast because there are gaping holes in their comments. It's one thing to be on an aviation enthusiast website and it's another to be on a pilot only one.

Right now I think there are one or two posting here that are not Delta pilots but are trying to pass themselves off as Delta pilots for the sake of stoking some fires. They may be pilots but they're probably not Delta pilots, they're just sock puppets.

Which I admit, it takes one to know one! :D Yes, I'm somewhat proud to say I've destroyed a few UGA football threads in my time playing the disgruntled alumnus who says all the right things to help the clueless come unglued. I've even argued with myself to prove my legitimacy. :D

But just to be clear, non Delta pilots are obviously welcome here because the more the merrier. But if they pass themselves off as one and are here just to start arguments and fights, well, eventually they'll reveal themselves.

I agree with 80kts, they don't know what to do with Fifi. I think they are sorry they put a base in ATL. It will not grow any further.

Crew Resources says that it doesn't have IFE. Passenger feedback is that they want IFE. So, the Carribean flying is very limited. Most of it will stay with the 737.

Of course, this is DAL, the plan may change at any moment.