{"id":276179,"date":"2025-09-01T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-delta-air-lines-fly-airbus-a350-not-boeing-787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:00:15","slug":"why-in-the-world-does-delta-air-lines-fly-the-airbus-a350-and-not-the-boeing-787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276179","title":{"rendered":"Why In The World Does Delta Air Lines Fly The Airbus A350 And Not The Boeing 787?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only has <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> not ordered any Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, but it has also canceled orders. When Delta merged with Northwest Airlines in 2008, it inherited the former&#8217;s order for 18 Boeing 787-8 variant aircraft. Delta formally canceled that order in 2016. Since the 2010s, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033779\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-no-boeing-787s-analysis\/\" >Delta has only purchased Airbus A330 family and A350 widebody aircraft<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta chose the A350 over the Boeing 787 as it had better confidence in Airbus, a strained relationship with Boeing, and more.<\/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":[430,396,476,995,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-787","category-delta-air-lines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276179","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=276179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276180,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276179\/revisions\/276180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}