Delta is heading for Boeing retirees this year. While the announcement of the retirement of the Boeing 777 is still with enthusiasts around the world, Delta made another announcement that it will retire its 91 Boeing 717 and the remaining 49 Boeing 767-300ER. To many, this sounds like the beginning of Delta moving in an All-Airbus fleet, and it may be, there are still many years left before Delta gets there.
Delta current fleet and plans
Delta Air Lines currently operates the following 17 types of aircraft:
- Airbus A220
- Airbus A319
- Airbus A320
- Airbus A321
- Airbus A330-200
- Airbus A330-300
- Airbus A330-900neo
- Airbus A350-900
- Boeing 717-200
- Boeing 737-700
- Boeing 737-800
- Boeing 737-900ER
- Boeing 757-200
- Boeing 757-300
- Boeing 767-300ER
- Boeing 767-400ER
- Boeing 777-200ER and -200LR
This year, Delta is on a huge plan of retired aircraft. The airline said goodbye to its McDonnell Douglas “Mad Dog” fleet in the MD-90s and MD-80s in June. The retirement of the small Boeing 777 fleet of 18 aircraft was then announced. After that, Delta announced the retirement of all its Boeing 737-700, seven 767-300ERs and 10 Airbus A320s.
Now, in September, Delta announced another retirement, albeit in December 2025, following the exit of the 717 and 767-300ER. After the aircraft retires, Delta expects the following aircraft in its fleet:
- Boeing 737-800
- Boeing 737-900ER
- Boeing 757-200
- Boeing 757-300
- Boeing 767-400ER
- Airbus A220-100
- Airbus A220-300
- Airbus A319
- Airbus A320
- Airbus A321ceo
- Airbus A321neo
- Airbus A330-200
- Airbus A330-300
- Airbus A330-900neo
- Airbus A350-900
With the addition of the A220-300 and A321neo and with the four types of retirements mentioned above, there will be 15 aircraft types below the delta, the distribution of the A320ceo and Neo family is normal, the same with the A320 fleet, the A220, 737, and 757 fleet. From a pilot standpoint, the A330 and A350 have the same type of rating as the 767-400 ER and 757, so Delta could essentially maintain a pool of pilots to operate in both fleets.
By family, Delta will have the following aircraft:
- Boeing 737 next generation
- Boeing 757
- Boeing 767-400ER
- Airbus A220
- Airbus A320ceo / A320neo
- Airbus A330ceo / A330neo
- Airbus A350
Which of these possibilities will go away?
Delta will likely have to wait for the announcement of the program before deciding what to do with Boeing’s NMA, or what to do with its 757 and 767-400ER fleet. Both aircraft are some of Delta’s favorites, a versatile fleet in the 757’s that could do everything from short-term domestic to long-distance internationals with false-flats.
The airline also rearranged its Boeing 767-400ER, sending passengers with a refreshing interior primarily to London, giving passengers a comfortable experience.
Combined, the 757 and 767-400ER make 121 aircraft. The 757s on the order could easily have been replaced with the 100 Airbus A321 Neos, Delta would probably have to convert some of those or turn the options into orders, covering the long distance international route of the 757 to 20-30 called the A321LR or A321XLR, unless , Of course, Delta will not see the future for long and thin routes and will decide to wreck it.
The 737-800s have an average of 18.8 years, and the Delta has 77 of them. Saving for four, the Atlanta-based airline owns all of those planes, so it won’t be hard for Delta to retire. It is not clear whether he is hungry to make the airline’s fleet about 10%. Delta is keen to make this decision as domestic demand is recovering much faster than international long-term demand.
The Boeing 737-900ERs will remain
On order last year, Delta just concluded deliveries of a total of 130 Boeing 737-900ERs. The youngest aircraft in the fleet is just over a year old. At the end of June, the airline’s 737-900ER fleet averaged 3.8 years.
While Delta has shown readiness to retire fleets of small aircraft such as the aircraft 737-700 and the 7777-800 LR (which is on average about 11-12 years old), there is a fundamental difference between a fleet and a 7737-900 air fleet. . For one, there were only ten aircraft active in both fleets, which makes it smaller and adds extra inefficiency, which in turn increases airlines’ costs.
Even if Delta cuts to 30 737-800, 7 757, and 676767-0000 CR, these planes will not have a considered retirement age until around 2030 (assuming Delta has no trouble saying goodbye to this aircraft), which Around 2030, whatever the route is. Yet to predict what the world’s flight will look like
Essentially, without any special deals on Airbus Jet and without a guaranteed plan for the CEO of 7 73–0000 (perhaps Airbus will take them as a trade-in and Boeing leased Airbus the same as it did in the 4040s), especially from On a 49 49 lease, there is almost no chance the Delta 737-900ER retires.
Another option would be to lease proprietary aircraft and terminate the lease, although it would not be very easy to find a home in an airline line 81 73 73–900 area until Delta turns to some of its partners, such as Korean Air, and Have to lean on them. Jet.
Do you think Delta will try the rest of the Boeing types from its fleet and get rid of it? Let us know in the comments!
