{"id":10391,"date":"2024-02-11T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-prudent-fleet-strategy-behind-delta-air-lines-success\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T07:00:12","slug":"the-prudent-fleet-strategy-behind-delta-air-lines-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=10391","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Prudent\u2019 Fleet Strategy Behind Delta Air Lines\u2019 Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we discussed why <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\">Delta Air Lines<\/a> operates <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-delta-often-goes-with-airbus-jets\/\">Airbus jets not flown by its large US rivals<\/a>. Commonality with the existing fleet was one major factor, as was the simple fact that certain types were best suited for the airline&rsquo;s operations. But digging even deeper, we can see that decisions made over a decade ago were critical to putting the airline on a solid path to success, while also avoiding some catastrophes perhaps only visible with hindsight. It&rsquo;s these historical decisions and a strategy of prudence that we&rsquo;ll examine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were the actions of the airline&#8217;s former CEO instrumental in Delta&#8217;s current success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,565,809,810,3977,3978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-delta-air-lines","category-fleet-analysis","category-fleet-composition","category-richardanderson","category-strategic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}