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Room To Grow: Delta Air Lines Flying 90% Of Fleet But Underutilizing It

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.

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.
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