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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 3:48 pm
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Originally Posted by ClipperDelta
It's precisely because Delta is now the world's largest airline with a broad network touching all continents with their own metal that they are able to afford NOT to give more stuff away.
That's what they hoped would be true. At this point it's hard to allocate the red ink between economic downturn & elites voting with their feet.

Their service to two continents is tenuous at best. They're scaling back in Australia & way back in Africa.

In the end as the economy recovers, my bet is that DL/NW will not be the sum of DL + NW but only marginally larger than DL + what's left of NW's NRT operations.
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