Retire the MD-88 fleet

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 16 May 2016
Due: 16 May 2021
Delivered: June 2020

Deadline
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Late
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Today

What the company said

“Full retirement of MD-88 fleet over the next 5 years”

SourceDelta Air Lines Form 8-K press release, 2016-05-16
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedover the next 5 years
Deadline used16 May 2021, the last day of the stated period
TypeProject
Permanent referenceKI-C-2016-DAL-007300
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2016-DAL-007300/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Delta accelerated the retirement of its MD-88 fleet, completing the process in June 2020, which is ahead of the original five-year commitment deadline.

A
Delta Air Lines 10-K filed 2022-02-11 Regulatory filing · published 11 Feb 2022 · retrieved 12 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 26da918779bb
“During the March 2020 quarter, we recorded a $22 million charge related to accelerating the planned retirement of the MD-88 fleet from December 2020 to June 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +2.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (10 Feb 2022 to 15 Feb 2022). What this measures

Checked 12 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift -136 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 16 May 2016

Deadline 16 May 2021 (“over the next 5 years”)
Version 2 · stated 14 May 2020

Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“by the end of the year”) · target 18 aircraft

“we’ve also made the difficult decision to permanently retire our Boeing 777 fleet – 18 aircraft – by the end of the year.”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Project other
Indicative materiality: Low rules
Action: Retire
Deliverable: MD-88 fleet retirement
In the company’s control: High
Specificity: High

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.

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