While the aviation industry is currently shrinking due to the pandemic, that's not stopping airlines from still taking delivery of some planes (presumably for contractual reasons, rather than an actual desire or need for new planes). Well, Delta will be taking delivery of a new aircraft type in the coming weeks, which is the first…
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I passed by Mirabel airport yesterday and saw one of Delta A220-300 next to an Air Vanuatu A220-300!
Beautiful plane. Just a shame it flies for Air Canada, the worst airline in North America.
Good to see it added to Delta.
It would be great if Delta operated this plane on the JFK to San Jose route, needs a major upgrade from the 787-800.
Also, this flight would be great from JFK to Nashville.
You said SLC-IAH on November 10th is an A220-300, but the screenshot you used shows an A220-100. Am I missing something? Or did you just screenshot the wrong flight?
The A220s are great looking planes and will take over the 717s routes once the 717s are retired. Not much sense wasting cycles on shiny new A220s when the paid for 717s can fly them.
Hoping we will get some mainline Delta A220s on the NYC-CMH flights instead of the E170-75s.
Can't wait to fly it. I usually sit in Comfort+, and this sounds like a great experience.
The truly sad thing is that widebody aircraft are becoming obsolete in airlines fleets across the board. Yes the A 220 is a fine machine but it's being used on many routes that the late Airbus 300 , L-1011 , and DC-10 were deployed on. And hot meals are persona non grata in our world today. Sigh --
Flew a -100 LGA-IAH r/t just before the pandemic started and it was a great experience. Looking forward to the -300s popping up on more and more routes and also over at B6 over the next few years. Between B6, DL and AC, LGA will be full of these things before you know it!
Seems like the narrowbody equivalent of the 787. Definitely the plane of the future.