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Delta 737-832 At IND  
User currently offlineTiger119 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1919 posts, RR: 0
Posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1090 times:

Someone on A.Net will either have the answer or know where to get the answer. This evening (Tuesday, 4-13-2004) I saw a Delta 737-832 N378DA

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sitting at IND, parked in area that is normally for charter flights or diversions. It appeared they had a GPU hooked up, the beacons were turned on and it appeared passengers were sitting on board. Does anyone know if it was a diversion? The only Delta aircraft I ever see at IND are 737-232s and MD-88s (not including RJs). I thought it might have been an NBA charter (Pacers WILL beat the Chicago Bulls Wednesday night) but there was a Champion Air 727 sitting right next to the DL 738 that The Bulls probably chartered.


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User currently offlineDeltaMIA From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1672 posts, RR: 19
Reply 1, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1059 times:

DL1162 SEACVG.
Diverted due to ATC equipment failure at CVG. The equipment wasn't down for very long however this aircraft didn't have a lot of holding fuel.


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User currently offlineTiger119 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1919 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1042 times:

If they had an ATC problem, I'm surprised there weren't more diverts to IND. Why didn't Delta put winglets on their B738s?


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User currently offlineB4real From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 2595 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (9 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 971 times:

Someone correct me if I am wrong...

The wiinglets optimize fuel consumption on the 737 for longer flights (SEA-CVG would count however) (flights of over 1000 miles efficiency gain of around 3.5/4.0 % as well as some payload performance gains), and DL doesn't always use them for long flights (East coast shuttle ops) - and they really want consistency in their 738 fleet .

B4


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