Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is prepared to accelerate the retirement of some MD-88s, MD-90s, as well as B757s and B767s to mitigate the downturn caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said during the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference.
The carrier still operates forty-eight MD-88s, which are 28.7 years old on average. It plans to retire all of them this year. The MD-90s, of which Delta operates 26, are due to stay in its fleet until 2022. The latter subfleet is younger, averaging 22.6 years.
The McDonnell Douglas twinjets are mainly being replaced by A220s of which Delta already operates thirty A220-100s. It has a further fifteen A220-100s and fifty A220-300s on order from Airbus Canada (ABK, Montréal Mirabel).
The carrier's fleet of B757s includes 111 B757-200s and sixteen B757-300s. It also operates fifty-six B767-300(ER)s and twenty-one B767-400s.
