I don't want to derail the conversation too much, but Ill give just a quick answer: 1) HOU takes a bigger bite of the domestic O&D from IAH than DAL does from DFW. But even then, HOU combined with IAH, the domestic O&D wouldnt come close to DFW or ATL. 2) Houston's economy is very internati...
Jump to postDL in LA is interesting to me....their route structure heavily implies they do much better flying pax to LA than competing for local LA traffic. Sure DL is the largest at LAX, but.... In Q3, of the Top 15 domestic markets from LA, DL was the market leader in only 1 (ATL): LA-SF LA-NYC LA-SEA LA-LAS...
Jump to postFeel free to post your alternative source Well, you could look at the system frequency changes that coincides with that yourself/ My point, however, was that you are calling an enthusiast blog "the news". . You’re right You could look at a lax-lhr drop and notice an atl-lhr increase and i...
Jump to postBA744PHX wrote:theVagabond wrote:Next question...where does the slot go? ATL? JFK?
Last week DL increased frequency on ATL-LHR (shocking)
Now for the 3rd set. This is the percent the hubs destinations are operated by mainline aircraft. Those destinations operated with a mix of mainline and regional will count for Mainline/ Percent of Destinations Operated by Mainline Aircraft/Mix of Mainline and Regional Aircraft GUM (UA) - 100% EWR ...
Jump to postAny reason why DL sticks with daily year round to JAC from ATL versus seasonal MSP? MSP isn’t even daily when it has service. Agree this is the network decisions that I just can’t figure out DL’s illogical decisions regarding glaring holes in their network out of DTW, MSP, SLC. So you cut MSP-JAC. ...
Jump to postJust for context, as of this morning B6 has added BOS/JFK-DUB, BOS-CDG, and JFK-EDI on its website. I'm guessing that's what triggered the initial comment about B6's TATL expansion.
Jump to postSome corrections: MDE-MIA is new and on LA LIM-ATL is new and on LA BOG-ATL is an increase in service and operated by DL, not LA CTG-ATL is new but operated by DL, not LA GIG-JFK is new and operated by DL, not LA GIG-ATL is an increase in service and operated by DL, not LA. https://www.latamairline...
Jump to postwenders825 wrote:in the last two years, NAP is their only new station in Europe I'm pretty sure. pretty wild given that even AA opened NAP/NCE/CPH
flyboy80 wrote:I noticed the Winter schedule has PVG as daily from DTW at least , maybe SEA too, but I imagine this is a placeholder?
I’m not sure I follow: “What does DL have to lose?” ….Money? They are dumping capacity on the routes, by adding service to saturated markets? They are doing a 1x daily. They lose money and it goes away in 6-12 months (or less). Big deal. They haven’t been battling for market share for 18 months and...
Jump to postInteresting that DL is also running a red-eye southbound. Not sure when that changed, but they used to fly daylight ex-ATL and redeye ex-LIM.
Jump to postLos Angeles is nothing but a focus city for Delta other than the usual competitive trans-con routes, its not even their prime Pacific rim departure point on their network Saying LAX is "nothing but a focus city for Delta" is underselling their operations there a bit, considering DL has be...
Jump to postI had dinner with the Director of Sales for Boston with Delta tonight and he said a few things I found to be interesting; -DL is studying adding BOS-BOG on an A330 (in conjunction with LATAM JV) -DL is likely going to announce an increase of frequency on BOS-GRU (as part of the JV with LATAM) -Draw...
Jump to posthttps://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/american-airlines-loses-fight-over-delta-airport-slots-2023-03-16/?fbclid=IwAR2ZneppJfmd9R1iWUl_C5S2nv7-28eaDQuqXIm-RnK46MkXnwW6l6jNy2Y Good for DL. I wonder if it means we are obligated to operate PHL-LHR in order to keep the slots or could we swi...
Jump to postI will say that United offers a more competitive schedule with non stop flights from both JNB and CPT than our triangle offering which, Im sure pax find inconvenient especially since they don't get off in CPT on the JNB-CPT-ATL legs. Doesn't DL fly both JNB and CPT nonstop a few days per week, and ...
Jump to postI was quite confused by HND-IAH/IAD having imbalanced return schedules (3x weekly HND-IAD and 4x weekly IAD-HND, and vv for IAH) until I saw that they'll complement flights to & from NRT on the other days of the week. Briefly wondered if they were going to operate a 1x weekly ferry IAH-IAD.
Jump to postDelta is adding 3 more weekly frequencies on SEA-ICN as of December. SEA-ICN will be 10x weekly on DL metal and 5x weekly on KE metal. https://news.delta.com/delta-adds-second-seoul-service-december-complementing-existing-daily-operation Interesting add as up to now, not aware of any late night fli...
Jump to postATL-TLV is Delta's first kinda sorta new European route for awhile. The one I keep hoping for and would make some sense is ATL-PRG. I could maybe see another Southern Europe route eventually (LIS?). DL did try ATL-LIS for a summer two or three years before covid, only to move it to BOS-LIS the foll...
Jump to postIt's not too difficult to guesstimate the return when one considers a flight time of roughly 11 hours with TLV 7 hours ahead. I'll assume the flight will be 12 hours on they way back to account for headwinds. I guess it all depends on the departure time in ATL. It's also about connecting passengers...
Jump to postIf I’m reading Delta’s press release correctly, ATL-TLV and TLV-ATL fly on the same day. On a 3x weekly service, I’d expect the return to operate a day later. Does anyone know how this flight will fit in with the JFK and BOS flights? Another way to ask is where does the plane flying TLV-ATL come fr...
Jump to postI don't think we ever got an answer on this in this thread or the network thread - but is the LAX-PPT part of the JV? I could see it as TATL flying, but maybe its drafted as "X countries" or whatever that would capture PPT. I don't know, but I'd wager it is if I had to bet, since it techn...
Jump to postI can't think of a single connection that would be better at LGA instead of ATL, especially since you are much more likely to misconnect at LGA. The South Central states are DL's weakest region so I really don't see this route sticking around. Oh, I'd much rather connect in ATL as well. I'm just sa...
Jump to postJust noticed DL added LGA-OKC with a YX E75 but can’t tell when it started. Going up against AA on this route who started it last year. Good for OKC to get more NYC service. Be interesting if UA brings back EWR-OKC now too. Since the slots are use-them-or-lose-them, it seems DL has a bunch of LGA d...
Jump to postDo we know what the FAA means when they use the phrase "COVID cleaning"? Is it strictly about wiping down surfaces? Or is there some sort of air purification process involved as well?
Jump to postSA government allows Delta to fly to Cape Town. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/amp/delta-air-lines-flights-from-us-to-cape-town-finally-approved-2022-4 The question now is if they even still want to operate the triangle routing... At the time DL requested to operate ATL-JNB-CPT-ATL, UA hadn't ye...
Jump to postMIflyer12 wrote:
Well done DL! As others have said, it's something they've been gunning for for a while. The survey timeframe was Aug 2020-March 2021. With DL and the middle seat blocking, it made flying a lot more comfortable on-board, and for those who were flying the perception of better health/safety. On top of ...
Jump to postpanamair wrote:More transatlantic changes:
Another daily JFK-TLV flight starting September so there will be 3x daily JFK-TLV!
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but where is B6 getting the slots for its planned LGA expansion? Pretty sure it’s AA Yup, AA/B6 are using each other's LGA/JFK slots. B6 uses AA's LGA slots for these expanded destinations, primarily sun markets Vasu Raja said in a podcast. AA uses B6's sl...
Jump to postSorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but where is B6 getting the slots for its planned LGA expansion?
Jump to postHVNandrew wrote:GRU was also tried from MIA more recently.
Is this the first time, or one of the few times that two carriers from the same country have been in the same global alliance? Continental, Northwest, and Delta were in SkyTeam at one point. Then Continental defected and joined Star, so United, Continental, and I believe US Air were in the same all...
Jump to postand there has been no new development in this rumor or even any new talk surrounding DL and A350s. Not sure how true but according to this blog, Delta will be flying A359 from ATL to MNL via ICN beginning 02 Jan 21..... http://philippineairspace.blogspot.com/ Quote: "The flights from Seattle w...
Jump to postThe 3:15 disparity between eastbound and westbound block times makes me think there has to be a tech stop en route back to YUL, right?
Jump to postThe Hill is reporting a B6 pilot also saw the same thing. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... x2lJM1bx7g
Jump to post"No more possibilities to improve" simply doesn't apply in the world of commercial aviation. Demand is always ebbing and flowing, competitive forces are ever-changing, facility constraints come and go, fleets are under near-constant renewal/replacement... need I go on? Many of these chang...
Jump to postWill be interesting to see how B6 does on some of these with so many carriers on them. I wonder what new nonstops they can bring that aren't/haven't been served (according to the press release)? AUS-AA, DL, B6, WN, NK, UA BZN-G4, AA, DL, B6, UA LAS-AS, G4, AA, DL, F9, B6, WN, NK, SY, UA RNO-AA, B6,...
Jump to postI’d like to see loosening of the perimeter rule. If JFK takes the hit, so be it, let folks decide what airport they want to fly into. You can’t prop JFK up and jam LGA full of RJs. I'm honestly a little surprised there haven't been rumblings about introducing a few beyond-perimeter exemptions for L...
Jump to postThanks Enilria! **WN increases ATL from 99 in DEC 2019 to 116 in DEC 2020. Taking advantage of DL shrinking??? ATL has a rigged gate system where basically the bulk of gates are either Delta or common use. Delta has been able to dominate the common use gates through its massive size. With Delta shri...
Jump to postSome people here seem to wish KLM belongs to IAG. IAG is already huge in 3 countries. In Spain, Iberia dominates by far the market. In the UK, with the bankruptcy of FlyBe, and the near collapse of Virgin Atlantic, BA will dominate even more the market. And I am not even talking about Level and Vue...
Jump to postCRJ5000 wrote:Honestly, not as bad as I thought.
Can you imagine telling someone 3 months ago that DL would be posting a 607 million dollar loss for 1Q and that it would beat a lot of expectations...
A couple of things: - HND is a much smaller market than LHR - TPAC was far and away the least profitable of the geographical regions for DL prior to COVID - post-COVID, demand to Asia will be really low for a few years - Delta will be a lot smaller coming out of this and need to rebuild its finance...
Jump to postFor DL, 7x daily flights into HND without feed there was already way too much capacity, diluting the KE JV. The coronavirus developments have only deepened the problem. We can definitely expect some changes to the aforementioned slot allotments in the next two years. How come? UA is in a similar si...
Jump to postIt sure is a huge coincidence if it wasn't a petty response. SEA-DFW makes sense for a carrier with a hub in SEA, I get it. But so does LAX-ORD for any carrier with a hub in LAX I think people have different definitions of petty. To me, AA going from 7 to 12 flights a day on MIA-MCO is a little pet...
Jump to postIn addition to SEA-CMH/DFW, Delta plans to launch a daily SEA-LHR in 2021, obviously in response to AA. SEA-LHR on Delta is a resumption after dropping its flight for PDX-LHR. The daily DL SEA-LHR flight will complement VS’ 2x daily SEA-LHR flight. https://news.delta.com/delta-seattles-global-airli...
Jump to postGiven the way airport announcements usually go, I'm just going to assume it's for the new IPT service that's being moved from PHL until the actual announcement comes out.
Jump to post[As a replacement for both the A330-200 and 777-300ER, the 787 is a tad on the small side. It is a perfect A330 replacement, but the 787-9 is way smaller than the 777-300ER and the 787-10 is both quite a bit smaller and completely lacks the range of the 777. OTOH, the A350 is a tad on the bigger si...
Jump to postAA does not "have" SEA anymore than DL had it 8-9 years ago. They have a partner who has SEA, a partner with whom they can't coordinate schedules or pricing.
Jump to postLike many others, I had to double-check to be sure it wasn't April Fool's, especially regarding SEA-BLR. I know it's been talked about a lot on a-net but have never seen any O&D numbers. My guess is they're banking on connections from AS, but that leads me to ... The REAL QUESTION is what happen...
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