Delta a 'prime launch candidate' for new Boeing model
Delta CE Ed Bastian says the airline would be a "prime launch candidate" for Boeing's proposed New Mid-market Airplane. The carrier is in discussions on the potential aircraft with Bastian meeting with Boeing executives to discuss it last week. The NMA family will seat 220-270 passengers with a range of roughly 9,260km when it enters service, which Boeing expects in the 2024-25 timeframe. Delta will need to replace its 127 757s and 79 767s, two aircraft the NMA is targeted as a replacement for, in the second half of the next decade. Boeing has yet to officially launch the programme, though it created a dedicated office to study and develop the NMA in September 2017. <br/>
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Delta a 'prime launch candidate' for new Boeing model
Delta CE Ed Bastian says the airline would be a "prime launch candidate" for Boeing's proposed New Mid-market Airplane. The carrier is in discussions on the potential aircraft with Bastian meeting with Boeing executives to discuss it last week. The NMA family will seat 220-270 passengers with a range of roughly 9,260km when it enters service, which Boeing expects in the 2024-25 timeframe. Delta will need to replace its 127 757s and 79 767s, two aircraft the NMA is targeted as a replacement for, in the second half of the next decade. Boeing has yet to officially launch the programme, though it created a dedicated office to study and develop the NMA in September 2017. <br/>
