klm617 wrote:FLYKTPA wrote:klm617 wrote:
That can't be said for a lot of cities only those in close proximity to JFK and ATL where it is redundant to over fly those hubs when those frames can be used on flights that don't really have direct or convenient access to ATL or JFK for their European customers as those two hubs replicate what AMS and CDG do on the European side. So those passengers in TPA and MSY will be flowed over ATL where all major cities are accessible with one stop.
Then why is DL going to fly MCO-AMS and IND-CDG? According to you, those passengers can just connect in ATL, JFK ect.
Going by your logic-
MKE- convention access to MSP & DTW for EU
DFW- fly to ATL for EU
LAS, DEN, SAN & PHX can all go to LAX and SLC for EU.
So why fly to any of those cites?
MCO because have you ever heard of Disney it's a huge draw for Europeans. I said One Stop IND does not have convenient one stop access to most of Europe without a flight to CDG same for all the Western cities I named were as Florida and the surounding states have those one stop flights available over ATL so there is no need for direct access to Europe. I agree that DFW could use ATL but was hard preesed to come up with a 6th city so since it was linked to AMS before by KLM I added it to my list but not really believing it will get AMS access. Over DTW and MSP you only have 4 year round cities you could get to year round with FCO, MUC and KEF added to the list in the summer months. It's funny how people throw out all this great logic but when you toss that same logic back at them about the markets they are defending they can't embrace it. If there ever comes a TPA-AMS link it will not be on DL/KL
Why can’t IND DL passengers connect to EU via ATL for their one stop access? Yes, DL can continue to push EU- TPA passengers over ATL, but both TPA and AMS are working on nonstop AMS-TPA service and TPA can support a nonstop sky team flight to Europe. You are contradicting yourself by saying that TPA EU passengers should all go thru ATL but IND’s EU traffic shouldn’t. All of TPA’s and IND’s DL EU traffic could connect via ATL, but DL is trying new things, hence IND-CDG. You still haven’t given a good reason for why AMS-TPA isn’t going to happen. Yes TPA travelers can connect at ATL, but so can IND’s, and IND is getting EU DL service so why not TPA?