Originally Posted by
kjnangre
My thinking as well. I think DL would love an efficient narrowbody that can serve a whole bunch of secondary markets in Europe from ATL/JFK.
787 is a great plane, but it would be an oddball subfleet, and if there's one thing that's become crystal clear in the last few months, DL doesn't like oddball subfleets (farewell 777, 717, 737-700).
Agree that in principal it sounds good but the only challenge is labor economics. Delta is on the record saying they do not like narrowbody long-haul economics due to labor costs. I can't find the specific quote but I believe it was the head ops that said this.
Who knows what the world will look like post-COVID though so maybe their position has changed.