Delta encourages Boeing to launch NMA (797)

Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian is encouraging Boeing to launch its proposed New Mid-market Airplane (NMA). "We are still very interested in it," he tells investors at the JP Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Industrials Conference on the aircraft today. "Boeing hasn't decided if it's going to launch that aircraft – we hope they will." Delta has upwards of 200 aircraft that it could replace with the NMA, says Bastian citing both its Boeing 757 and 767… (www.flightglobal.com) Más...