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Delta Air Lines pushed back the US debut of Airbus’s newest aircraft by a week because it can’t get needed approvals for the flights from the Federal Aviation Administration during the government shutdown.
Inaugural flights of the Airbus A220 will be reset to February 7 from January 31, Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said. Other aircraft will be substituted on the routes so no flights will be cancelled and customers won’t be affected,
he said. The changes were expected
to show up in Delta schedules
on Saturday.
Delta plans to use the A220 to replace older, less fuel-efficient aircraft in its domestic fleet. It needs FAA workers to conduct inspections, issue certifications and complete test flights before it can make commercial flights with the passenger jet, which has never been flown by a US carrier.