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Dec 9, 2008 | 3:08 pm

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Originally Posted by sbagdon

Will there be any NW 787s?

5 years seems plenty of time to retire some NW airframes. Figure by then, then DC9s and 757s could be retired, and perhaps even the 747s? The 319/320/330s seem to have plenty of time left in them?

Is there any contract wording to stop DL from ending all new NW pilot hires, and all new NW airframe deliveries, moving everything over to DL? If all the NW 787 deliveries are converted to DL 777s or 787s, and all new NW hires are stopped, and all NW attrition is backfilled by NW old-hires, doesn't that limit the pool of pilots that have to be intergrated at the end of the 5 years?

If USA Today quoted from the ruling verbatim, it really doesn't matter whether the 787s are "DL 787s" or "NW 787s" -- basically all 787 pilots would be ex-NW pilots, and all 777 pilots would be ex-DL pilots. Of course if DL were to go radical and buy A350s or A380s, there would be no restrictions there ...