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NCE has been a 767-400ER for many years now and is currently loaded as an A330-200 for next summer. ZRH-JFK hasn’t seen the 763 since April 2018 (has been the A332 and then 764). DUS and MUC had been on the 764 as well. Both STR and TXL have alternated between the 763 and 764 for a while. As it is, both DUS and BER are not currently planned to come back in 2021, not because of any lack of the 763, but because of Covid.
Many of the 763s had been operating supplementary TATL routes during peak summer (such as ATL-VCE or ATL-MXP); if need be DL could simply drop those and keep VCE for example only from JFK and upgauge to an Airbus.
Next summer, the 763s are scheduled on all DUB, MAD and BCN flights from multiple US gateways but that is because they still anticipate that demand won’t have recovered yet; pre-Covid those places all got the A333s from both ATL and JFK during the summer (and kept the A333 during winter by dropping ATL).
Point is, they will find ways to handle many of the 763 destinations. Pre-Covid Delta had already been moving to upgauge many routes.
Yeah Delta knows better than all the other airlines... Even Air France and Lufthansa ordered the 787. That says quite a lot. You are mistaken about the 763ER. It ran plenty of international flights prior to covid. Any timetable will show you that. They wouldn't have scheduled it for the new D1 suite if it didn't. And it was definitely a favorite for seasonal routes. If a route couldn't support year-round service on the 763 or 757 than it has zero chance of surviving the significantly larger A330.