Well its been a little while since our last update. So I’ll start off with some quick facts:
- Our Mainline In-Svc fleet now stands at 759 active aircraft (inclusive of the flying freighters).
- Wi-Fi: 203 A/C
- Winglets: 146 with Blended Winglets
All three of the remaining 76D Flat Bed Mods are in work. Ships 1804,1805, 1807, and 1809 are all currently flying active routes to/from LHR.
We finished up our 777ER +3 Y/C mod at the end of June to bring up the Y/C capacity to 221 pax.
The Soft Goods upgrade to our red-tail fleet is well on track with 30 A/C completed and 52 more A/C with partials. When the summer schedule ramps down, we’ll begin a greater push to have the entire fleet modified quicker.
Lastly, paint-wise, as of July 16, Delta had 262 aircraft painted in the new livery. Broken down to 171 pre-merger DL aircraft and 91 pre-merger NW aircraft.
Mike Kotas
Fleet Programs
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Any news on if/when the BusinessElite flat bed mods will be carried out on the 767s running ATL to MAN ? Last time I flew that route, the biz cabin was starting to look very tired and dated.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hi Mike,
Do you have a breakdown of the fleet types and the number of each??
According to my numbers, I got 793 a/c in the fleet including 742F’s and a/c in mod. and maint.
thanks. chris
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
THIS IS THE LIST I HAVE
B73G-7
B738-71
B744-16
B742-6(F) 2(CHARTER)
B752-109(DL) 55(NW)
B752ER-17
B753-16
B763-15
B763ER-57
B764-21
B777-8
B777LR-8
A319-57
A320-69
A332-11
A333-21
MD88-117
MD90-16
DC9-29(30), 8(40), 34(50)
TOTAL-793
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Mike – regarding the former Northwest fleet, what can you tell us about plans to install AVOD and/or audio and overhead video to the a319/320 and 757s? It helps that wifi is planned for these aircraft but a consistent product experience for the traveler, especially when connecting through the former NW hubs, could be a good thing.
Thank you for your updates!
Skycubbie
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Hi,
Looked at my numbers and added the numbers wrong, 770 is the number I got. An updated list would be great.
Thanks Chris
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 am
Mike-
The fleet is something like 21 767-400s, right? Are the other 14 going in for mods? If so, on what schedule?
Thanks.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Mike, When will the 767 -400 on the Sao Paulo route from LAX and also Alt be equipped with the new lie flat beds?
July 30th, 2009 at 9:57 am
First – great blog. However, as I read the many posts here everyone seems to refer to a specific a/c by “ship no”. I usually use the tail no. so my question is; can I find a list of the fleet where both the ship no. and tail no. is anywhere online? Or maybe a friendly soul will share some info here.
Thanks in advance
-Martin, CPH
July 31st, 2009 at 2:02 am
Mike, Will the 767 -400 on the ATL – GIG route be equipped with the new lie flat beds? If so, when.
Many thx
Nicholas
August 16th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Korean Air has a nice feature at their web site. It allows a potential customer to determine which flights have which type of seating. It would be great if Delta did that. As everybody knows, business class seats on Delta/Northwest can be anything from a basic domestic first class seat to a great lie flat bed. It seems to be somewhat of a crap shoot trying to determine what seats will be on a particular flight. I have actually booked international business class flights in January and March on Korean Air rather than Delta/Northwest because nobody at the Platinum line could tell me what type of seats would be on the flights if I flew Delta/NWA. With Korean Air, the answer was extremely easy to find and caused me to book on the Korean flights that had lie flat seats.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I try to use seatguru.com to determine what seat type will be on which routes. Like you all I would love to see the 767-400′s all with the lie flat bed configuration but it seems to only be on LHR routes. What I do is use the seat map to figure out the seats for the 767-400 flights. The 2-2-2 configuration seems to be the old seats and the 1-2-1 configuration is the new lie flat seats.