{"id":301782,"date":"2025-10-15T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/problem-delta-air-lines-ran-into-replacing-boeing-757s\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:00:29","slug":"the-problem-delta-air-lines-ran-into-with-replacing-its-boeing-757s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301782","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Delta Air Lines Ran Into With Replacing Its Boeing 757s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines&#8217; Boeing 757s are among the oldest aircraft in its fleet, with an average age of 23.6 years old according to the latest data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ch-aviation<\/a>. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256203\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/skyteam\/\"  >SkyTeam<\/a><\/span> carrier has long planned to replace them, particularly on key transcontinental routes, and ordered the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739506\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a321neo\/\"  >Airbus A321neo<\/a><\/span> to do so. However, things have not gone to plan so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s Airbus A321neos are not operating as the carrier had originally planned.<\/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":[528,396,476,1379,565,640,13503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321neo","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-757","category-delta-air-lines","category-skyteam","category-transcontinental-routes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301782","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=301782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301783,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301782\/revisions\/301783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}