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Analysis: Delta’s narrowbody order
26 August 2011
Delta Air Lines executive sheds light on the reasoning behind the carrier’s selection of Boeing’s 737-900ER.
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Yesterday, US carrier Delta Air Lines announced a firm order with Boeing for 100 737-900ERs. The airline, which operates both 737s and also Airbus A320s acquired from its merger with Northwest Airlines, has a clear need to replace ageing 757s and MD80/90s. In the end the choice came down to the 737-900ER versus the A321.
“The essence of the project was to replace the 757,” says a Delta executive familiar with the negotiations.
Delta has a fleet of about 180 757s, many which are of 1980s vintage. The airline needed slots within the next couple of years, but was not looking to make an order on the scale of American Airlines (which split an order for 460 narrowbodies between...
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