DELTA looking at Huge Narrow Body Order

Delta Air Lines says it issued a request for proposals from aircraft manufacturers in late December for the “potential replacement” of 100 to 200 domestic narrowbody aircraft, with options for as many as 200 more.

Delta, which disclosed the RFP in its weekly news line for employees and CEO Richard Anderson’s weekly message Jan. 13, says the airline is looking to take the first delivery in early 2013 and wants large, medium and small narrowbodies. Anderson describes the search as being in its “initial phases.”

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