Indeed, Delta is maxed out at peak times, which is why you won't see Delta fly to ORD or DCA/IAD anytime soon. They can add one or two flights at the margins, they just can't add a roster of flights to a single destination.
Approval of their joint venture with AM would have helped as they would have had more mass at T2 to attempt a split operation. At the moment, Delta has no other options.
you THINK they have no options.
you PRAY they have no options.
DL does indeed have options to grow at LAX.
and if anything DL is more likely to bring AM into T5 and 6. The reason why DL doesn't want its longhaul JV partners in T5 or 6 is because they fly widebodies that take up lots of room which DL can't afford to give up.
DL can put 757s on flights to Mexico and use less gate space than DL's longhaul JV partners use.
Saw this on the last post. It's so crazy that I had to open up a WT post to check it out for myself. Yep. There it is in all it's glory.
So, WT - are you suggesting that it is Delta's corporate policy to be willfully disingenuous with the DOT when it comes to route authorities? If it's a concious decision/policy (as you suggest), then some would call that fraud. I'm not a lawyer, but I know that fraud is typically a bad thing and gets people into heaps and heaps of trouble.
Come to think of it, maybe WT is onto something. Maybe this is the corporate policy at Delta. Maybe DOT figured that out in the HND case. And maybe - just maybe - that's why they put such tight handcuffs on Delta on the SEA-HND route. Now it makes sense. Thanks for helping me understand that, WT.
I'll be putting the ignore back on now.
again, you and others twist what I said and what DL said.
DL didn't say it couldn't add another flight.
DL said they are near the limits of what they can grow at LAX because of space limitations BASED ON WHAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE.
A JV with AM does help DL because AM doesn't use DL's facilities.
It is hardly the only argument for whether the JV will be approved or not.
It also doesn't mean for a minute that DL doesn't have options.
and again AA never bothered to tell the DOT that it intended to cancel its LAX-NRT flight but did so it was increasing competition.
Cutting one flight in order to add another is not exactly enhancing competition.
Further positioning itself as the single largest U.S. carrier between LAX and Mexico, AA has applied with DOT to launch daily Los Angeles-Mazatlan eff. 7 November 2015.
excellent....competition is good.
let us know when DL puts up the "no room at the inn" sign and waves the white flag and surrenders the market to AA.
me thinks you will be waiting awhile.
How about you and others provide a list of markets that DL serves but AA does not - and in some cases neither does any other carrier before you are convinced that DL doesn't have as equally as impressive list of flights?
I know one that AA and UA don't and won't operate - HND.
