All the 757s are likely to be refurbed with pivot bins, AVOD and AC power even before there are twenty A321s in the DL fleet.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...er-thread.html

Oh man. Those aft lavs look even smaller than the 739.

I assume some will be updated with new interiors and kept for a few more years, while some will be retired with more 737-900's and A321's coming in. If anything I probably see some of the older 757's do some hub-hub flights like ATL-MSP, ATL-DTW, and ATL-JFK.

Well you're in luck with DAB, it's all 717's, MD88's, MD90's, and 757's.

I would think the remaining 757s will be doing beach markets like LAX - Hawaii, LAX - Mexico, and LAX - Central America.

I'm just curious, why do you hate the Airbus? Is it the barking dog noise or the ghetto interiors.

I never liked how Airbus cheated their way into being a major aircraft manufacturer. Airbus is the creation of three European governments and was financially backed by those governments. Boeing and MD both had to deal with the reality of possible financial ruin and MD ultimately had to face that reality. Airbus never had to deal with such risks or deal with free market principles. A Boeing executive told us during a presentation at my university that the 737 was pretty much the only thing keeping Boeing alive during the 787 design and production. Airbus will never have to deal with such problems. Everyone has their quirks and not flying on any Airbus is one of mine. . I'm a PMDL flyer so Delta fit my needs perfectly. A great network to the places I wanted to fly and not an Airbus in sight.

Fair enough. I'm hoping that at least the new Airbus interiors are better than the ghetto interiors that DL currently has.

As for the way the company was created, I'm not a fan of it. If Boeing flopped as badly on a superjumbo as Airbus did with the A380, Boeing would have gone bankrupt. Airbus is different. Luckily, very few routes I fly are on an Airbus, so I can avoid them. I hate them, but for different reasons.

No, I want the DC-9s back. Also, I'll keep the A330s and 747s for international please, not those horrible 767s (including the domestic version). BTW, we had 757s before the merger and all of our A319/320s had 16 FC seats.

I forgot about NWA's small 757 fleet. Delta was and still is the largest operator of the 757/767. But I'm with you that things were better before merger mania. The deck has really been stacked against the customer and despite being wildly profitable Delta's CEO is still trying to stifle competition. It's sad.

I actually prefer the airbus due to the width. While the 757 would be preferred, DL'S new reconfigures basically ruin all of the spacial benefits a 757 had....

An interesting comparison is against the newer pre-merger AA A321 configuration, which is:

16 first class
36 main cabin extra
129 economy

So Delta is somehow managing to put 172 coach seats in compared to AA's 165, even though Delta has an extra row of F.

For one thing, AA maintains a proper bulkhead between F and Y as well as a reasonable amount of legroom in the first row of each cabin. Those decisions account for some of the "wasted" space in the AA configuration.

Maybe they moved you to Air France ?

Nope. I checked. It's DL404. 1/2/1 up front. The seat map is showing the exact same config as the DL B777-200ER/LR on SeatGuru, so, I guess it's just another simple IT error.