Originally Posted by
woodenshoe101
Getting 787s in the fleet is not so surprising, but the fact that it's an order for the -10 is a bit surprising to me. That's a pretty big frame, and looks more like a A330/339 alternative than a 763/764?
The economics of small widebodies are poor. Don't get me wrong, the 767 was a gamechanger, but the world was very different back then.
Delta loves efficient planes, and that means large narrowbodies (739, 321, Max10) and large widebodies