Delta is predominantly an Airbus customer for wide-body jets. It has 18 Boeing 777s and 55 A330 and A350s. //

Delta Air Lines said it would retire its fleet of Boeing 777 wide-body jets.

But it shouldn’t be, for a simple reason: Delta (ticker: DAL) is predominantly an Airbus (AIR.France) customer for wide-body jets. Out of the roughly 900 aircraft the U.S. airline operates, 18 are 777-model planes. Delta has 42 A330 aircraft and an additional 13 A350 aircraft for a total of 55 Airbus wide-body jets.

Wide bodies are twin-aisle planes. Narrow bodies are single-aisle jets such as the Airbuse A320 and Boeing’s 737-model jets.

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