Originally Posted by
RealHJ
Newer, more spacious, better maintained, bigger overhead bins (vs. 767s tiny and pretty useless ones in the middle section), flies faster than 767s (shorter flight time), more comfortable (less tight than 767s), individual air vents, and the list could go on...
For DL as for most other airlines, it's A330s are some of the best aircraft in the fleet... and as such DL has left their retrofitting to be the last, as until the 767s got the flatbeds, the 767s were always the aircraft to avoid. If DL itself didn't think that A330s are the best maintained and upkept aircraft (as it's NW, not like some of the really beat up interior DL 767s) then they would have went in for mods earlier; it is no wonder that they were left for last. A330s were the best and some of the newest before the mods, and will be so again after it.
Originally Posted by
RealHJ
Benefit of 767 is if one is flying in BE and it has the good new seats: longer flight due to slower (smaller than A330) plane, thus more time to sleep than on A330 or 747 (which goes so fast that often I end up selecting a 767 or A330 on the route vs the 747 just to get more sleep, I mean on routes where DL has 3 dailies and one of each aircraft type). But in economy though, faster flight is better - less time in discomfort, which would put 747 first, A330 second and 767 dead last when give the choice.
If the DL refurbished 767s have improved bins and now the middle ones are no longer too small to accommodate a standard size bag, ^ to DL. I know that for most other airlines (AA, for example) 767 bins in the middle are the small and not-very-useful size, having everyone rush to get to the side ones. It is also certainly soon the DL pre-retrofitting 767-300ERs.
Do you even read the garbage you post or are you just trolling for fun? How is the A330 better maintained than the 767? They are both maintained by the same airline, Delta. THis wasn't always the case of course. While Delta was winning awards for maintenance, NWA was incurring million dollar plus fines for their practices, which coincidently Delta had to pay after the merger.
As for your faster comment, you do realize that take off and landing times are by slotted time and are decided in the moment by ATC. If the A330 flew twice as fast as a 767, it would either be gate held or flying figure 8's all the way to it's destination in order to arrive in it's slot. As it stands, the minuscule difference in operating speed of the two aircraft could make a difference of less than 15 minutes on a long haul flight. Do you really expect anyone to believe that you adjust the way you fly over a 15 minute time difference?
BTW, an A330 flew empty from SIN to ATL. Doesn't this mean it's time for you to make up another one of your crazy stories about how a flight attendant heard a rumor from a passenger that a Delta plane lost it's insurance and had to fly empty?