Originally Posted by
ChamplinAl
x-LATAM A359 aircraft (N575DZ) appear to have not had its interior upgraded to "the" DL standards. Its missing the PS seating and also has a ton more seats (339 to DL's 306). The period of time these X-LATAM frames are being kept at SIN is just for a paint job? Delta has them leased, so the clock is ticking on making payments, still probably less than a purchase price payments. So this used frame is going to be dedicated on the ATL-SCL segment (or possibly other South American routes from ATL). Delta is calling these 359's seat layout 35L's. If this ship does go to other current 359 routes, lets see how many true Delta top passengers might get pi....d off. Just saying....
Yes we've known for many months that these planes will be temporarily flying with the LATAM seat config before getting converted to the DL config. We just don't know for how long (I'm guessing till the end of the summer rush). And yes, folks who fly those routes are pretty upset about it