Originally Posted by
channa
Part of the ATL issue is that ATL is no longer a partner hub. So that makes sense for a capacity reduction, as it's all O/D there now, as opposed to customers making CO-DL connections.
Yes, that's quite true, but on the other hand, DL has not reduced its ATL-IAH/HOU capacity nearly to the extent CO has, and CO has added in additional ERJ frequencies to IAH, so it's not nearly as much capacity reduction as it might first appear. After all, replacing a 735 with an ERJ, and then adding another ERJ as a new frequency, isn't much of a capacity reduction. Even during the 2002-2004 pre-SkyTeam/DL codeshare days, when the economy wasn't exactly doing all that well, CO wasn't flying this many ERJs on that route. The schedule also shows a return of a lot of the mainline flying, and reduction in some of the extra ERJ frequencies, around 90 days from now.