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Jul 13, 2012 | 10:33 am

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Originally Posted by dieuwer2

Looks like the only Airbus planes in the DL stable are are the A319, A320 and A330-200/400. There are almost 5x as much Boeing configurations. From a cost-savings and training's perspective, it would make sense to go all-Boeing.

There are some gains from fleet commonality, but there has to be a limit, no? I mean, DL has more A320-family planes than AS has planes in their entire fleet and as many of the type as B6. If training, scheduling, and servicing a 120+ plane fleet were so uncompetitive, then how do AS or B6 pull it off?

I remain a bit confused as to how splitting an order, as AA did, would net the lowest possible price, but I don't think DL should be overly concerned about fleet commonality as long as each order is for more than a handful of planes.

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