Delta, Boeing revise 787 purchase deal


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Delta and The Boeing Co. have finalized an agreement regarding Delta’s purchase of 18 Boeing 787-8 aircraft, originally ordered by Northwest Airlines.
Under the agreement, disclosed Monday in a quarterly financial filing, Delta remains a 787 customer, and will begin accepting the aircraft at a rate of six per year starting in 2020.
Under the original order, Delta was going to start taking the aircraft in 2008. Boeing was unable to meet the original delivery date, which is why the agreement was re-negotiated.
 
Delta riafferma ordine NW per 787 ma differita consegna fino al 2020-2022(!)

Delta reaffirms Northwest 787 order but pushes deliveries to 2020-2022

By Aaron Karp | October 27, 2010

Delta Air Lines for the first time publicly addressed whether it will retain 18 787-8 firm orders placed in 2005 by Northwest Airlines, stating in a regulatory filing this week that it has entered into an agreement with Boeing "to reaffirm" the orders but has deferred delivery to 2020-2022.
DL inherited the order when it acquired NWA in 2008; the two have been operating on a single certificate since Jan. 1. Airline executives have repeatedly indicated that investing in existing aircraft is a higher priority than adding new ones (ATW Daily News, March 5, 2009).
DL said last month it will equip all of its 16 747-400s with "new fully horizontal flat-bed seats in the BusinessElite cabin and new economy class seats featuring personal, on-demand entertainment" (ATW Daily News, Sept. 3), part of a $1 billion upgrade of its existing fleet (ATW Daily News, Jan. 26). NWA, tapped in 2005 as the Dreamliner's North American launch customer, was originally scheduled to receive its 787s from 2008-2010.
 
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