This thread should seriously be deleted. How many versions of EWR vs JFK do we need on here. 0.0000000% Chance. No room at JFK for a UA hub. JFK is way more competitive, so why on Earth would United want to do that? Think about this too, if UA abandoned EWR, you would be giving someone else a prime...
Jump to postHmmm. I'm not sure I'd ever use the word "brilliant" to describe an ad campaign based on making fun of people. This campaign takes group of what appears to be poorer, undereducated Americans in Texas (Wharton, TX has a population of 8,773 people and a median household income of $32,243) w...
Jump to postWhat will the 777 configuration be with the 4 class? I know it’s 296 with D1, PS, and Y. Just do a sample booking in the future, the seatmap is already loaded 32J, 48PS, 90C+, 122Y = 292 It’s actually 28J on the 777s, for a total of 288 pax. Oops, I just counted 8 rows and didn't notice there are o...
Jump to postDylanHarvey wrote:What will the 777 configuration be with the 4 class? I know it’s 296 with D1, PS, and Y.
747-100's at Delta were only around for about 7 years. Northwest had a small fleet of 8 MD-82's (mostly from Republic merger) that they operated for 13 years (1986-1999) and then retired. They likely had a fair amount of life left in them as they were about 18 years old at that point (they continued...
Jump to postFunny I too took it as a given that WOW was gone from PIT---- but the articles I have read and the press releases from WOW don't seem to address the issue of PIT head on, unlike all those other cities. I wonder why that is. . . . Call me crazy, but Wow might be able to make PIT work profitably with...
Jump to postWhoa !! that's quite a slashing. Is no one using Delta's service. Early death throes of another small airport. AZO travelers can drive an hour to GRR which has more than 10x the passenger count. Or SBN. The Kazoo area is a primary victim of overseas outforcing. Once home to several Fortune 500 hq’s...
Jump to postWOW is still hanging on. I think WOW dove into a decent niche market for travel to Europe. I assume it helps that WOW Premium is constantly either nearly full or sold out. What also helps is the gap between WOWs fares and Delta's fares. It's leaving a decent margin for WOW to charge more. I think f...
Jump to postId say Frontier but it seems theyve settled on a niche. The worst that would happen to them IMO is a merger with Spirit which is better than liquidation. I think B6 is just dealing with growing pains since they now have employees that are able to retire. For the US3, id say AA has the least solid f...
Jump to postAA debt levels is something like $25Billion, while DL is at about $11Billion (they had it down to $9Billion last year). UA is at around $13 Billion. So AA is probably most valuable.
Jump to postAny word on when CBP will be adding Mobile Passport app to DTW? Passed through DTW on my way back from London yesterday, and it would have been nice to use the app instead of having to use the computers. There's always Global Entry and Nexus. Nexus is super-cheap at only $50. Yes, you'll have to go...
Jump to post2) How many airlines today risk getting in the "low" category when they hold a plane for more than 15 minutes to allow connecting passengers to make their flights? I can't imagine that it is more cost effective to put people up in a hotel because waiting one additional minute means the fl...
Jump to postYeah, I understood the DOJ was the impetus behind the relationships change between AA and AS. Partnership benefits (like mileage earning) would be completely outside the scope of what DOJ can control. And again, the code-sharing limitations are nothing new. There's almost certainly more to the stor...
Jump to postI am sure AA-AS can work something out about overlapping routes I'm curious what you think that might look like. Seems pretty clear cut that the government has forbid overlapping codeshare between AA and AS as a direct concession of the VX acquisition. Code-sharing agreements have long been been su...
Jump to postAs already mentioned, LAX has customs at more than one terminal. DTW has international arrivals at both the McNamara and North Terminals.. MSP also handles international arrivals at both of it's terminals.
Jump to post15 percent?! Try again. The city of Detroit is closer to 35 to 40 percent of DTW local traffic. The remainder is suburbs, collar counties, and outlying areas (ie Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and some leakage from Toledo). I get that you don't like seeing the numbers for the city of Detroit, but they are w...
Jump to postThe City of Detroit only represents about 15% of DTW's catchment at this point. It's absurd to use the City as a proxy for the region's economic health. Another poster demonstrating their ignorance of the region. 15 percent?! Try again. The city of Detroit is closer to 35 to 40 percent of DTW local...
Jump to postThe City of Detroit only represents about 15% of DTW's catchment at this point. It's absurd to use the City as a proxy for the region's economic health. Another poster demonstrating their ignorance of the region.
Jump to postThe market was due for a correction and anybody that thinks two bad days in a row equals a bull market shouldn’t be investing in anything but monopoly properties. Delta pumping out another nice quarter. They’re turning into old reliable. Their product may not be way different than AA or UA, but the...
Jump to postIt looks similar to when a legacy zeros out all the fare buckets except for full Y which is generally a pre-cursor to a route suspension.
Jump to postBottomline, any route with a decent amount of non-stop flights (typically 4 or more) will have a non-stop routing requirement in the fare rules. For the lowest fare buckets, sure. But that’s not always an option ;). Higher fare buckets generally allow more connecting opportunities. Sometimes yes, a...
Jump to postI know DL does flow some connections over LAS To SAN, SJC for people wanting to avoid other mega hubs. DL has integrated their point-to-point flying as valid connections on most tariffs. For example, I’ve flown DTW-BNA-LAX and SNA-LAS-DTW, the latter several times. I’m usually the only one connecti...
Jump to postDelta did not buy the 717's from Southwest. They are leased from Boeing (and at very favorable rates). They can phase them out as leases expire if they choose to do so. It's a combination of subleases and leases from WN. 8 of the 717's were owned by WN and are leased to DL on a 7 year term with an ...
Jump to postEAS is nothing but a socialist leftover from the times before deregulation. Definitely not worthy for a capitalist country. Socialist? In that case, why aren't all interstates/highways user pay toll roads? Strawman alert. Nobody is saying that road connectivity is not crucial to communities. Also, ...
Jump to postWhy is this so difficult! PREMIUM class tickets enjoy all inclusive service, bags, seats,priority boarding etc. ECONOMY class tickets includes, 1 checked bag, seat selection, 50% Refundable/Changeable fares, BASIC FARE tickets includes, NO BAG, 1CARRY ON ONLY, NO SEAT SELECTION, 100% NON REFUNDABLE...
Jump to postDL has FA bases in MNL, NRT, PVG. DL has closed a lot of the Asian bases they inherited from NW. Some of the former bases include BKK, TPE, SIN. There was an FA base in HKG too. I was on the final flight for the base from NRT-HKG. The US-based purser on the flight announced it was the final flight ...
Jump to postI think you need to update your “meticulous mode” as it’s wrong Depends on the day. Some days the DTW-LAX flight is a 752 which continues to HNL and some days it's an A321 which does not (like today for example). The airplane type might be the same (752) but it almost always is a different plane. O...
Jump to post[Meticulous mode ON] This route actually does exist (DL1149) with a stop in LAX. :D So, we can say this is a new non-stop route. [Meticulous mode OFF] :D Well, there is a plane change involved with DL1149, different aircraft are used on the DTW-LAX flight and the LAX-HNL flight... I think you need ...
Jump to postI think there's a halfway house. The EU insists on efficiency labelling for electronic goods. It offers a quick way for consumers to see the characteristics of the device they are buying. I think some standard could be arrived at for displaying the key metrics for airline seats, shoulder room, leg ...
Jump to postWhen is DL going to cut CVG down to hub flying/Paris and close the CVG focus city? Is it really that important strategically for DL to keep a big presence at CVG with DTW so close? I mean, no offense to Cincinnati, but it isn’t on the same level as Boston or Raleigh-Durham (Delta’s other two focus ...
Jump to postHave flow on ICN to DTW many times. Always, always after clearing customs/immigration, I've had to go through another TSA screening to get upstairs to the domestic gates. It is a special screening area for connecting pax, but the damn lines can still get long if you're tail end charlie. You don't h...
Jump to postOn peak days J fares are around 11.5k oneway which is very high, other days they are around 10.1k. Surprised they can fill the J cabin at those fares, but then again depending on the contracts some companies are likely buying these tickets at a discount Who buys one way J tickets to CDG? Probably a...
Jump to postI always think about my CO2 when I fly places, and I tally it up at the end of the year and buy offsets. At some point in the not-so-distant future, someone younger than myself will ask what it was like before Miami was underwater, before the choking wildfire smoke in Seattle, before the torrential...
Jump to postWhy does a family of 4 all need to sit together? Yes, it's preferable, but hardly necessary. Been traveling with my family of 4 for many years and when the kids were younger, we couldn't always get seats together, but it's generally not to hard to pair one child with each adult. The vast majority of...
Jump to postBelieve it or not, not all employee actions and requests reflect company-wide policy. So this was most likely not "DL" who was "ordering" you to do this, but rather a single employee who is either making up their own rules and perhaps misunderstood an actual company policy (such ...
Jump to postChuska wrote:AA LAS-NRT. Daily 787-8 service begins Jan 4.
When are they going to replace the big low-res LED TV's in concourse A? Those things are definitely showing their age. They give me a headache after just looking at them for a few seconds.
Jump to postWPvsMW wrote:Try getting an award tix LAX/SYD on DL.
Sure but this is also prevalent in OW and possibly *A. Most advance economy fares you purchase are not going to earn anything on partner FFSs. Worse, QF reduces even business / first class fares to an economy earn rate for partner airlines on routes it flies itself. I'm aware, but this wasn't the c...
Jump to postReally how fast did that Porsche go? It’s like having one in NYC, a waste of a fine car. Not really the point, the point is it's a lot faster than running/walking. Just got the Porsche treatment last week at DTW with delayed AZO flight arriving into C24 at around 7:35PM connecting to YUL flight out...
Jump to postB6 owning slots and gates at JFK doesnt increase their ability to buy AS, unless they were to find someone to lend them the money against their assets. Server leverage. AS market cap is nearly $8b, 20% more than B6. Buying AS doesnt solve any of B6's problems and only adds more problems Neither air...
Jump to postHow many markets now does DL consider focus cities? 77H Officially RDU and BOS are focus cities. Depending on which publication you read, it is unclear if CVG is officially considered a hub, or focus city. I think it's pretty clear from this -- https://s1.q4cdn.com/231238688/files/doc_presentations...
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Jump to postmercure1 wrote:they only have 3 gates now, who's going to give them more gates?
1 gate = 10 flts at best.
I agree. This would be one major improvement that DTW could make. I look at SFO as a model for how it could be done in Detroit - centralize all rental car companies into a single parking garage structure and provide one people-move system of some sort that connects both terminals with the facility ...
Jump to post-Typically, they use slightly older aircraft (except NK has the youngest fleet in the US). NK started with old DC-9s. Then onto MD-80s which were used as well. New aircraft didn't happen until the Airbuses. -They nickel and dime you, obviously, as well, for things such as snacks that come free on l...
Jump to postI think the whole idea of cramming more and more people into an airplane is going to backfire spectacularly one day. Just image an accident where people stuffed in 25” legroom seats cannot get out fast enough because they are literally stuck. Wedged in. Airplane bursts into flames and all 300 pax b...
Jump to postLooks like DL has made IND a connection stop, MSP-IND-CDG is the quickest connection from MSP so there may be a few pax who connect from that flight although likely not many considering MSP has multiple nonstop to CDG. There are other flights that could work as well, but I don't expect a lot of con...
Jump to post3 in D1 and 10 in the main cabin. The 3 D1 seats though will be gone after upgrades and all of the nonrev stand-by's should get on. Flight will probably leave with 3 seats open. Medallions don't get free upgrades on long-haul international. They have to use an instrument of some kind (miles, GUC, e...
Jump to postSo what will happen when DL gets rid of the remaining CRJ's? Will they cut it for good since this route can't seem to handle anything bigger? DL has never said they are getting rid of all their CRJ's. The just said they are reducing the count to 125 (they had 343 50-seaters back in 2012). They had ...
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