Delta Loses 757 to FEDEX??
 

hey this might have already been discussed but a buddy of mine said that he had a fedex guy tell his captain that the 757's that fedex is getting are the ones delta has right now.. Is that true? he said it had something to do with the lease issues and delta's bankruptcy. apperantly delta tried to screw the leasing company over during bankruptcy so they intern signed a lease with fedex for the planes and that the planes in the near future will be assigned to fedex as the lease holders.. anyway thought i would throw that out there and see what you guys have been hearing.

We (DAL) are getting 13 or so 757ERs from AA. Not losing any current aircraft that I know of.

I think that number is now up to 15 757ER. There was one in ATL with the winglets installed. It's a sharp looking jet.

Someone else ...
 

I think some of the FedEx 757s are coming from USAir ...

USAir and a couple other places. I think one came from Ryan International. Isnt FedEx looking for RR powered birds over the pratts?

Who wouldn't ...

We have returned or will soon return some 75s 76s and MD80s to the lease holders. I guess some of those could be going to FedEx.

Given the the scarcity of good used 757s, FedEx can't be picky about the engines. It could be worse - there was supposed to be a GE engine for the 757 too - a CF6-36. That would really make life fun.

Me. 12,000 hours flying the Pratts with no problems.

I could have sworn that Boeing never built an official 'ER' model of the 757.

Are people just referring to winglet 757's as 'ERs' now?