Room To Grow: Delta Air Lines Flying 90% Of Fleet But Underutilizing It
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Delta Air Lines has provided guidance on its official fleet status. With over 90% of its fleet, stretching across the mainline and regional fleet, flying actively, the airline is bringing up its capacity ahead of summer. That capacity level will increase on May 1st once Delta unblocks middle seats for sale. However, amid all of this, Delta still has room to grow, as its executives have stated the airline is purposely underutilizing its fleet.
The above is the mainline fleet. On the regional side, Delta flew the following aircraft under capacity purchase agreements with other airlines:
Most of Delta’s fleet is back in the air
Delta stated that as of March 31st, less than 10% of its mainline and regional jets were temporarily parked. The airline’s fleet included the following aircraft at the end of the first quarter:
41 Airbus A220-100s
Seven Airbus A220-300s
57 Airbus A319s
55 Airbus A320s
113 Airbus A321s
11 Airbus A330-200s
31 Airbus A330-300s
Eight Airbus A330-900neos
15 Airbus A350-900s
50 Boeing 717-200s
77 Boeing 737-800s
130 Boeing 737-900ERs
100 Boeing 757-200s
16 Boeing 757-300s
36 Boeing 767-300ERs
21 Boeing 767-400ERs
The above is the mainline fleet. On the regional side, Delta flew the following aircraft under capacity purchase agreements with other airlines:45 CRJ-200s
18 CRJ-700s
141 CRJ-900s
18 Embraer E170s
109 Embraer E175s
This came out to a total of 768 mainline aircraft and 331 regional aircraft. Of this 1,099-strong fleet, Delta stated that less than 110 aircraft were parked, which is an astounding number.
