Razorback flyer

...And my math is fuzzy too. I guess it was 11 from China eastern and 3 from Hello. I only count 16 we had before 2009, but numerous articles I look at say we had 17.

Anywho, we own or have aquired 30ish MD 90's at this point, correct?

I count 39 in the world that are being sold, phased out, or retired that I'm sure we're talking to the owners about (16 JAL, 13 China Southern, 5 Blue 1, 5 Lion. I'm not counting the 29 at Saudi - yet.)

forgot to bid

Razor, 19 on property, 23 more to come for a total of 42.

Put "aircraft fleet information" in the search engine on Delta net, there is a good PDF that pops up.

That pdf still shows 5 more 319s and 2 more 320s coming, is that true?

And 1 more 757.

But get this: 176 transoceanic jets, 552 domestic birds (including at the time 5 DC9/40s) and 728 total mainline. There are 634 regional aircraft which includes Saab 340s. Of all 1,362 Delta system aircraft the largest single fleet belongs to... the CRJ200 at 361.

In fact look at it this way, there are 361 CRJ200s, 70 CRJ700s and 101 CRJ900s for a total of 532 aircraft. Thats 39% of the system wide fleet belongs to Bombardier while 29% of 395 aircraft are "originally designed" Boeing. That blows.

But the good news that are 175 aircraft designed by the grace of God.

slowplay

Delta has already announced the lease of 5 MD-90's from SAS (last at Blue1). I think Lion only has 4 of the original 5, and Saudia only has 27 left. I don't believe all 27 of those are flying, so some of them may no longer be available.

I believe the total committed MD-90 fleet is 49 aircraft including the original 16 DAL.

sailingfun

49 is correct. There are the 16 original aircraft and Delta has contracted for a additional 33 airframes. So far only 3 of the new airframes are in service. The remaining 30 are awaiting mod lines. The nice change is that 18 months ago the MD90's were slated to replace MD88's that were coming up on major overhauls. They are now being used as growth airframes.

Launchpad475

I can tell you from living in Renton WA where the plant is that things have changed slightly. I work out at an LA fitness where they used to hang the engines on the old 757 line, get my starbucks where the wings used to be attached, and buy home supplies at Lowe's where the paint shop used to be.

Now it's less building and more assembling. 73's show up mostly put together by rail, the wings from somewhere else, they are mated somewhere and a Boeing decal is put on under the cockpit window.

I think the 757 line is loooonnnggg gone.....

Elliot

FTB,

Caution to how many pics of "multiple" C-141's you post. I'm sure BUZZPAT is lurking somewhere close, and posting all those pics of his 2nd love (possibly 1st love), might just cause him to push the idea to the union for future negotiations.

Remember, Buzzpat = C-141's like NewK = DC-9's

GJ

firstmob

Any one know the latest on the LGA-DCA slot swap?

Brocc15

Where do you find it? I tried schedule- month, future schedule, bid awards. do you have to look in PBS? I cant get access to PBS I don't have a password apparently. Can someone please tell me why we need to enter passwords to get into DLnet in the first place, and then again for email, icrew, PBS, etc? I wish it were all just one entry and you're in the system!

Elliot

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Bill Lumberg

I think someone on here was talking about trying to swap for a trip but not being allowed to because next months bids aren't released yet? When will that happen. I see a tasty 4 day trip in ATL that I could swap for, but I keep getting that message. It starts on Tuesday. When will those ALPA people release the bids? Thank you.