DELTAFO

No, not really. The -700 is a specialized airplane here at DAL. They do the hot/high performance airports in Central America.

FL370esq

Yup....and SXM, SNA and EYW. All of which the A220-300 can do.

FMGEC

He was commenting on your label of “73N-700.”
The labeling is incorrect. There is a 737-700, but not a 73N-700.
One is an aircraft type. The other is a bastardized label of an airplane using a fragment of a Delta bid code.

Don’t even get me started on people’s labeling of a 767 as an “ER”
Ugh

BobZ

Huh. Good thing the studebaker isnt still on property.

Baradium

All of our 737-900s are ER models, I should just start referring to them as ERs in conversation

notEnuf

I love when people refer to the 400.

full of luv

Short widebodies..... are we talking about planes or pilots?

Big E 757

They both tend to be inefficient.

forgot to bid

FWIW we need every aircraft we have.

737-700s and 319s are young.

Old A320 burns nearly the same amount of fuel per pax on lga-bos as a220, check icrew. Difference in 320 is owned and carries more seats for a given utilization of gates and similiar crew costs.

BBD is in serious trouble. Their rail division is a disaster. They want out of commercial aviation and have publically said that. They make Boeing look as well run as Apple. They're selling the wing factory in Belfast.

Engineers that you need to design a225 are gone.

Airbus would need to sink money into 225 and then from what I understand share profitability and pay bbd more in a few years... kind of kills profitability. Airbus already has a design if Boeing goes clean sheet 737 replacement and it's not A22X. Its evidently called A30X.

If the 221 and 223 are great as is, then the 2.5T pencil whip increase shows it should have been 2.5T lighter.

Just stuff I read from around the internet except the 319 part, which I know there is zero talk about parking them. If the 220s continue the slow trickle and 717s and 88s are exiting as rumored we need everything, especially to take advantage of AA and SWA max issues.

The 321neo FWIW you're looking at a jet that will remove 2L and 2R doors to allow for ideal and differing premium cabin arrangements for 197 pax in comparable configuration. The engine gets 20% better fuel efficiency then cfm powered 321 and 20% maintenance reduction and 50-80% noise reduction. It also jumps 2T in payload and 500nm range increase. LR model is more of everything except dimensions. The bummer is we didnt get in line for 320N for early 2020s.

forgot to bid

But beyond the aesthetics of the plane the most beautiful aspect of the 221 is it replaces 76 seaters... on our side of the fence.