jcw said:DL will be down to 23 flights in MEM with layoffs of non-Union staff
AA will now have more flights in MEM than DL
jcw said:DL will be down to 23 flights in MEM with layoffs of non-Union staff
AA will now have more flights in MEM than DL
I am not sure if Delta hasn't loaded two more cuts or not (of course if your don't the AVG in Jan that might why, but January is a stupid month to do avgs because some many flight shifts in the first week)commavia said:
Indeed - interesting that by January AA will apparently have more departures out of MEM than Delta (although Delta will still have more capacity). This is particularly notable because Delta and Northwest have traditionally been the market leaders in MEM - going back many decades. Also notable is that with this latest retrenchment, AA will now have both the MEM-DFW and MEM-DCA markets to themselves (albeit with Southwest still in MEM-WAS with a daily MEM-BWI).
Just as many of us predicted years ago - this just goes to show how over-capacitized MEM was and how uneconomic it was to force connections over MEM into small cities on 50-seat RJs when a dramatically larger hub, with vastly better economies of scale, was only a few hundred miles away. Now the closure of the MEM hub is nearly complete. I doubt ORD will last much longer - Delta is now smaller in the market than AA and United, and has less of a competitive base in CHI to build upon. IND and RDU may have a slightly better shot because of Delta's strong presence in both places, and IND may actually pick up some level of FedEx-related O&D, although I wonder if one or both of those may end up getting cut at some point, too.
Never thought I'd see that day. When I worked in MEM, AA's operation (and US', for that matter) seemed like outposts just past the end of the line...jcw said:DL will be down to 23 flights in MEM with layoffs of non-Union staff
AA will now have more flights in MEM than DL
tiresome is more of a measure of how well you hold up.If we were discussing the pros and cons of cornbread vs. white bread stuffing, you would insert a sentence about what AA is doing wrong, wouldn't you? You are so very tiresome.
because which Boeing is headquartered in Chicago?As a side note, I find it tab bit ironic that DL is creating SEA into their Trans-Pac hub and just ordered Airbus.
WorldTraveler said:tiresome is more of a measure of how well you hold up.
In this case the fact that AA's absolute RASM is lower than DL's is a pretty good indication that AA is not getting the quality of revenue that DL does.
because which Boeing is headquartered in Chicago?
As an English major I must point out that you don't seem to know your own language. The word, tiresome, has NOTHING to do with stamina. Of course, I'm assuming that you claim English as your first language. If I'm wrong, I do apologize.WorldTraveler said:tiresome is more of a measure of how well you hold up.
it's actually about profitability.Oh now we get your strategy - "its how well you hold up"
so it proves everyone's point on you needing to get the last word in
Translation for everyoneWorldTraveler said:it's actually about profitability.
airlines in the US are for profit companies, not hobbies or state-run businesses.