Originally Posted by
golfingboy
Doubtful, it is an inefficient utilization of aircraft where the plane will fly past DTW to JFK or ATL then back to DTW... Just does not make sense... If they were to do something like that it will probably be more like this: JFK-DTW-NRT-DTW-JFK or ATL-DTW-NRT-DTW-ATL... I think NRT-DTW will continue to have daily flights, because NRT is the gateway city to pretty much all of DL's Asian destinations... DTW-HND will be purely O/D traffic.
Um..... lets look at the 744 fleet. The base is DTW(the only 744 base) so for the JFK 744 plane right now its does something like DTW-NRT-MNL-NRT-JFK-TLV-JFK-NRT-MNL-DTW.
the only 747 flight that is a turn around is the NGO flight, Plane goes DTW-NGO-MNL-NGO-DTW.
The only plane that does what you say is the 777 fleet. The ERs do ATL-DTW-ICN/PVG and back, the LR does ATL-DTW-HKG/PVG-DTW-LAX-SYD-ATL and back, the only reason for this is because ATL has no link between LAX and DTW, if DTW-NRT or LAX-NRT ever becomes a 777 they will kill those turns.