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Delta Shuns Boeing Dreamliner, Buys Airbus Ordinary-Liner


ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- Call Delta(DAL_) the airline industry contrarian on aircraft purchases.

While other carriers line up to buy the newly introduced Boeing(BA_) 787 and the not-yet-introduced Airbus A350, Delta just bought 30 Airbus A321s and 10 Airbus A330-300s, reliable but ordinary aircraft, for delivery between 2015 and 2017.

"If everybody behaved like Delta, the boom jetliner market would collapse," said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of consulting firm Teal Group. "Everybody else is in an arms race, and Delta is doing the exact opposite." Delta, it appears, does not suffer from "FOMO," the fear of missing out. Its first 787 is due to arrive in 2020 and it does not have an A350 order.

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It is precisely because DL "zigs" when other carriers "zag" that they can find opportunity that others miss.

They were sold to UPS in 1986 and leased back and not transferred until after the pylon mods were completed and the aircraft painted UPS colors during 1988-89 (IIRC).

The DC8s were the 753s of its era.... fun to sit in the back of the plane and watch the aisle flex side to side and up and down....