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Old Jan 31, 2019, 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Aselwyn
N501AA was the one sitting at the gate for my flight monday to YYZ that would have made it even slightly cooler with it being slightly shorter. but 83/88's are basically the same just Delta's vs AA's and some newer items for Delta's order. so will probably try and find a well priced trip this summer but wonder how i would position my self for many of these flights out of Toronto since i would not want to fly AA out of YYZ on there 737 Max they now seem to have scheduled in 14 days from now.
If you're happy with Delta MD-88s as a substitute there's no hurry: DL still has 80+ of them and some will be flying all thru 2019 and into 2020 - but not beyond.

I have many, many miles in the 3-side, aisle, 2nd wing exit on AA MD-80s from when I was too cheap to buy stickers.
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