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feel free to come up with your own definition of "trolling" dawg but posting inaccurate or incomplete information is not and never will be a license that anyone will get by with.
If DL is in retreat in Brazil, so also is AA. on a percentage basis, AA and DL are reducing their capacity in Brazil by nearly identical amounts.
On an absolute number of seats, if DL is in retreat, AA has dropped dead on the battlefield and the enemy is having to carry the bodies off. AA, by virtue of being larger than DL, is cutting far more seats than DL is given that both are cutting by the same percentage.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, that the Brazil market just plain sucks and cuts are happening by all of the US airlines.
of course another factoid that bears noting is that AA's average fares fell faster than any other US airline in the 1st quarter of 2015 between the US and Brazil and DL was the only one of the big 3 that actually INCREASED their revenue between the US and Brazil. and DL ended up with a higher average fare than AA did. This data validates what AA's own marketing people have said that AA is having to discount more and more in order to fill the seats they are offering in Brazil and that they can only plan from month to month.
Apparently those who want to argue that DL is in retreat are really hiding from the facts that really show that DL is doing far better in the midst of the downturn than AA or UA are doing and DL is using its partnership with Gol to see positive trends in a market which is only down for other carriers.
No, my friends, DL is not in retreat in Brazil. The indications are that in terms of revenue, DL is seeing improvements.
If DL is in retreat in Brazil, so also is AA. on a percentage basis, AA and DL are reducing their capacity in Brazil by nearly identical amounts.
On an absolute number of seats, if DL is in retreat, AA has dropped dead on the battlefield and the enemy is having to carry the bodies off. AA, by virtue of being larger than DL, is cutting far more seats than DL is given that both are cutting by the same percentage.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, that the Brazil market just plain sucks and cuts are happening by all of the US airlines.
of course another factoid that bears noting is that AA's average fares fell faster than any other US airline in the 1st quarter of 2015 between the US and Brazil and DL was the only one of the big 3 that actually INCREASED their revenue between the US and Brazil. and DL ended up with a higher average fare than AA did. This data validates what AA's own marketing people have said that AA is having to discount more and more in order to fill the seats they are offering in Brazil and that they can only plan from month to month.
Apparently those who want to argue that DL is in retreat are really hiding from the facts that really show that DL is doing far better in the midst of the downturn than AA or UA are doing and DL is using its partnership with Gol to see positive trends in a market which is only down for other carriers.
No, my friends, DL is not in retreat in Brazil. The indications are that in terms of revenue, DL is seeing improvements.
