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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | The 767-400

DVA4290
Senior Captain, CRJ-200

Joined on April 04 2007
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"Lightning coming out of that one"
Houston, TX USA

502 legs, 829.4 hours
340 legs, 575.5 hours online
421 legs, 683.7 hours ACARS
41 legs, 81.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 22 2007 17:40 ET by Andrew Lynn

Delta and Conti has this aircraft. Delta has 21 and Conti has a similar number. I know it was designed by Boeing to replace the DC-10's and L-1011's specifically for these two airlines but don't you think they were banking on it replacing for other airlines like AA with their DC-10 and so forth? Can this aircraft be considered a Failure? (I mean from a selling standpoint on Boeings hand, i've flown it before in real life and it is a dream).

Andrew Lynn

Senior Captain, CRJ-200

DVA1142
First Officer, B777-200
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Joined on March 19 2003
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663 legs, 1,775.0 hours
406 legs, 1,095.1 hours online
309 legs, 961.3 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 22 2007 18:47 ET by Daniel Edwards

It is a nice plane to fly on as a passenger, especially the new international config. Delta have with touch screen IFE. Was it a faliure? Depends really because that can be subjective. Some people might say yes because it only sold about ~40 frames. On the other hand, Boeing did make some modifications to suit Delta because the extension of the 767, while a replacement for ageing tri-jets, was really a specific project to please Delta. From what I've heard, it would have been more successful if it had a longer range, but the -400ER's range is about 1000nm less than the 300ER. But seeing as they already had the 200 and 300, development costs for a stretch would have been fairly minimal and probably made a profit for Boeing. So if you measure it from the profit point of view it possibly made money and was a success. For Delta and Continental it was a success. Compared with the 300ER, it was probably a faliure because of the smaller number of frames it sold.

I'm not sure though, I like the plane, so for me as a passenger it's a success smile

Posted onPost created on April 23 2007 13:44 ET by Andrew Lynn

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The thing is a real beut and I love how it slopes forward.

Andrew Lynn

Senior Captain, CRJ-200

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