Are they actually going to compete on price with these fares or just give you less for what you were paying before? Based on how basic economy rolled out domestically, I know which why I am betting. That is my only issue. This just adjusts the basic product to the old baseline price and everything ...
Jump to postThanks as always enilria! Maybe, but I don't think there is a ton of money to be made here. B6 already gets crappy average fares on DTW-FLL -- which has more connecting feed than MCO. Does WN operate this route too or does DL maintain a near-monopoly? WN has seasonal Saturday only service. But NK h...
Jump to postI was wondering what are DL's plans for it's Asia routes. As they seem to be "de-hubbing NRT", in favor of operating direct flights to Asian destinations from SEA hub. Already they've axed SIN, BKK, and TPE is in question if not already axed. They seem to be relying on codeshare partners ...
Jump to postYes, DL started on March 1 in 12 markets.
http://news.delta.com/delta-debuts-free ... 12-markets
AA also has meals in coach for JFK-SFO/LAX
N670US has been in ICN since last Thursday. Presumably, with some sort of mechanical/maintenance issue. The DTW-ICN aircraft normally sits overnight in ICN before returning in the morning, but they've changed the ICN-DTW departure time for the last few days so that the DTW-ICN aircraft immediately r...
Jump to postYou also excluded KEF from your list of DL destinations, DL come here 3x weekly IIRC in summer only. DL flies MSP-KEF as a seasonsal summer service, but it is operated daily. They run a bit more than just summer seasonal service. It runs through Sept 4th and resumes the last week of May. That's sou...
Jump to postNot really disagreeing. IMO the optimal situation would've been to have both Premium and Comfort, but if they're going to make us choose, then it's tough to argue that a separately-attended product is less of a gain than a measly 3-4 more inches in an otherwise standard Y product.... particularly s...
Jump to postThe poster clearly said acquisition. Hostile or friendly, B6 isn't taking on AS. People have also used the term "acquisition" with regard to DL+NW, UA+CO, and AA+US mergers. Sometimes, it not always clear on what type of merger people are talking about. Those mergers were clearly differen...
Jump to postMaybe they will do it in preparation for an eventual acquisition of Alaska? It seems inevitable that those two will merge at some point (it makes a lot of sense for both of them route wise). Alaska's market cap is $10.6 billion. Jetblue certainly wont be acquiring them. That is what cashless merger...
Jump to postHowever, in my opinion JetBlue never was a true LCC Neither is Alaska, they both got kind of the same image. When thinking of true LCC's I'm thinking of Spirit, Frontier and Allegiant and maybe Southwest. JetBlue has a far higher service level than those and on average also higher fares. Somehow th...
Jump to postA google search also says Elvis is alive and well, 9/11 was a George Bush Jnr master plan, the earth is flat and Lizards rule the world. You are missing the point. I'm not saying that it proves the hotel is actually haunted, but it's pretty clear that there are a number of stories floating around a...
Jump to postWell, a Google search says that the Congress Plaza is Chicago's "most haunted hotel". So maybe that's it -- https://www.theodysseyonline.com/dark-history-congress-plaza-hotel https://www.buzzfeed.com/annakopsky/i-stayed-at-the-most-haunted-hotel-in-chicago-and-lived-to?utm_term=.hjE5OJgjxm...
Jump to postseatback wrote:Did Delta close its SkyClub? If not, where will it go?
DL already has an A350 seatmap in it's system. Why would they load a 767 seatmap when they could load an A350 one? This sounds like a rumor you made up on your own.
Jump to postDL is clearly committed to making DTW/SNA work: they've re-timed the MSP & ATL flights so that DTW-SNA is the only morning departure and SNA-DTW is the only early afternoon departure; DL's given DTW the most desirable departure times. Additionally, as you've mentioned, DL's loaded the 73W bridg...
Jump to postI think it's time for regulation. It doesn't have to be overly onerous either. Minimum pitch should be 31" and 17" seats on wide-bodies shouldn't be permitted. DL does just fine with 9x 777s. 787s should be 8x instead of 9x. The airlines have received unlimited gravy from the Feds for yea...
Jump to postYou need to have a high status or pay. I find it ridiculous that if you are flying e.g. MSP-ATL-FRA, if you then want to use the lounge AT MSP it will cost you about $50. European carriers I must say are much more lenient on these things. I flew in Business FRA-BOS-ORD a 3 years ago and since my fl...
Jump to postMir, if the FA/Gate Agents don't have time to handle Ann Coulter appropriately, why do they have time to handle the other passenger? is it really that hard to handle it better than "We have to move you, and I don't know why"? Once she found out that she had a different seat, she should ha...
Jump to postIf she was already in Comfort Plus and put in for an upgrade, that would have been an upgrade to FC. There are no middle seats there. She paid $30 for the exit row seat which are free for Medallions. Clearly she has no status with DL and therefore could not have "put in for an upgrade" (e...
Jump to postBut it is distasteful to photo the other passengers to try and shame them. Thats not what expressing your anger at the airline is. Also would she have photoed them if they had been white. She has been very vocal of foereigners. The other passengers sure look white to me. What photo of passengers ar...
Jump to postAlright, Delta Sales and Marketing group, are you hearing this? Please create a "Twitter Class" for where people with a certain number of followers can be sat and treated like gold. That is actually not a bad idea. If they are going to bump people from their seats, they should at least do...
Jump to postDL DTW-LHR NOV 2>1.5 DEC 2>1.6 JAN 2>1.5 FEB 2>1.3 MAR 1.8>1.5 This is confusing because Delta never operated this flight more than once daily in the winter months. It's not being compared to what was operated last year, it's reflecting an adjustment to what was already loaded in the schedule for t...
Jump to postIt was posted in another site that she put in for an upgrade, got the upgrade but it was a middle seat, and decided to take her original seat, which at that point had been given away. But she was seated in C+. If that was her original seat, she must have been upgraded to F. DL does not have middle ...
Jump to postI just have one thing to say. Her two pictures don't agree with each other. If she took the first picture from her original seat it was a window on the left side of the plane. She then took a picture of the woman who took her seat, on the right side of the plane in an aisle. Things that make you go...
Jump to postIs she upset that a woman got her seat or that an attractive woman got her seat? She is just mad that she had to gate check her broom. She was mad that they took the premium economy seat she had paid extra for to a short woman who doesn't need the leg room. BTW Ann Coulter is 6 feet (183 cm) tall. ...
Jump to postDL DTW-LHR NOV 2>1.5 DEC 2>1.6 JAN 2>1.5 FEB 2>1.3 MAR 1.8>1.5 This is confusing because Delta never operated this flight more than once daily in the winter months. It's not being compared to what was operated last year, it's reflecting an adjustment to what was already loaded in the schedule for t...
Jump to postty97 wrote:Excerpt from the lawsuit saysAdditionally, both at the time of booking and at the time of travel, Mr. Bazerman had “Platinum” frequent flyer status with AA.
Synopsis of the lawsuit (for those who don't care to read the complaint): the professor has Platinum status with AA and oneworld sapphire status through BA. Since he is Platinum, he is entitled to check two bags free of charge. He received or saw several other notices that said he was entitled to c...
Jump to postWhy does everyone seem to think this JV will be approved without any issues? IIRC the last approved JV was DL/AM and it included unprecedented concessions, specifically the expiration clause. Why would this be any different? Unlike DL and AM, DL and KE already have US ATI. I don't believe the US ca...
Jump to postThe smaller players cannot fully compete with the big guys until they fill out their networks. While they can try to grow their way organically, that generally takes many, many years. The notion that mergers always mean less competition completely ignores the realities of the airline business and th...
Jump to postRead the story about "Detroit crime", my links aren't working from my tablet. Detroit population went from 4th largest at 1.8M to under 700K today. Crime per 1,000 people is insane. And your friends in Flint were 2nd worst city behind Detroit. These are the facts. DTW's catchment is in th...
Jump to postWhy don't UA/AA/DL fly more point to point routes? WN (although now it seems to be getting a little less point to point) and others seem to do well with them. I am not saying they should go full blown point to point or anything but there have the be plenty of routes they could make work pretty easi...
Jump to postThe DOJ is not omnipotent and any decisions made by them can be overruled in the courts. Right now, DL is still fighting for the one gate they do operate out of at DAL. A federal appeals court has allowed them to stay (sharing Gate 15 with WN) until a final court ruling is provided as the parties co...
Jump to postDelta absolutely has NO right to any gates at Dallas Love Field. The airlines that do are VX/AS, WN, B6, NK, G4, or F9. If that's the case, then DAL should forfeit any and all funds received from the federal government since they don't want to accommodate an airline that had started service when th...
Jump to postIf they offered fully paid training,hours, and certifications with a guaranteed job and upped the pay I'd fly in a heartbeat and I'm sure that would be attractive to many as well. And paying for all that would have no impact on the profitability and viability of said regional flights. Ah yes, detai...
Jump to postI actually think this will have the net effect of driving PFC's lower not higher. A lot of airports are fine with charging $4.50 because they know every other airport is doing it so it is not really a competitive issue. Some major airports are going to get the bright idea to cut their PFCs to $3 so...
Jump to postAs always, thank you for taking the time to aggregate the changes. DTW-MTY is perplexing. NW,NWAirlink,DL and now AM have tried to make this work for almost 20 years. Seems like a home run, given the auto connection, but always falls short. DCA-ILM....dosent that go back to the PI days??? DL alread...
Jump to postDelta does do some point-to-point routes out of its RDU focus city and out of MCO to some of its non-hub destinations, but does normally not do point-to-point routes to non-hub cities out of airports other than RDU or MCO. DL has also been recently building up p2p flying out of the BOS focus city. ...
Jump to postI'm updating my post as I found the gate lease agreement. I doubt that any new ULCC entrant is going to need more than one gate, so I don't see much point in UA squatting on gates it doesn't actually need. Here's the lease agreement that UA signed in 2013 to get to 5 gates. Note that if the airport ...
Jump to postAs I feared, no more Comfort+ cabin. Huge blow for Delta elites :cry: Can't say I'll miss C+ much. I've given up C+ seats a number of times (yes, aisle ones), to take an aisle seat further back with an empty middle next to it. Maybe if C+ had a decent amount of additional recline to go with it's le...
Jump to postHonest question, what is the difference between basic economy and flying NK,F9 and G4? Are you suggesting that their business plan is not positive and not customer friendly? You do understand that basic economy is not actually a separate cabin, right? Aside from the carry-on restrictions on AA/UA (...
Jump to postjchaase wrote:After buying the ticket, I checked the upgrade/standby list within the app. The section prior to buying a ticket shows nothing in first.
In addition to the above airlines, Alaska Airlines also uses one-way pricing. United, Delta, and American still have discounted roundtrip fares that require a Saturday night stay in many markets where they don't go head-to-head with LCC non-stop's (if the only competition is an ULCC, they may or may...
Jump to postRetiredWeasel wrote:NW had flight attendant bases at NRT, TPE, SIN, HKG, BKK, MNL, PEK, ICN at one time or another.
f18raider wrote:Maybe it was Tennessee One from WN?
Southwest has introduced free same-day standby for A-List members which should reduce the need for such speculative bookings (at least for the A-List'ers). Additionally, they have stated they intend to stop overbooking which will reduce IDB rates. I think it's fair to assume that one of their ration...
Jump to postLatrobe is hosed. To be honest though .. I never understood why they ever did LBE instead of PIT. With the HUGE amount of space available in PIT after the USAirways desertion, they surely could have negotiated some great lease terms with the PIT mgt. instead of settling on a strange little outpost ...
Jump to postSouthwest Contract of Carriage specifically prohibits such speculative bookings. Much discussion of this already on FT... https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/southwest-airlines-rapid-rewards/1823863-wn-s-new-reservation-system-aggressively-cancels-duplicate-bookings-7.html A number of other carriers wil...
Jump to postThe last comment is true. Detroit has a decreasing population, low income, relatively high crime, and many of the manufacturing jobs are now in Mexico and China. The last is the reason why Donald Trump is President right now. The city of Detroit constitutes a small part of DTW's catchment which is ...
Jump to postWhy gosh, it's all so simple. All we have to do is nationalize the airlines (to remove the profit motive) and certify the FA Union at DL and air travel will be just like it was back in the "golden age". After all, "Wall Street" is just a bunch of evil one percenter types. It's no...
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