Originally Posted by
TrojanTraveler
Thanks. I didn't like the long RJ flight, but the connections with AE from LAX never seemed to work, schedule-wise, with late afternoon JFK departures. DL didn't sell them. And looking at schedules on random days, there is no code-share LAX-SBA in the early evening, just in the am hours. At least there's a SBA-LAX-JFK codeshare in the am. Only way to buy a ticket for the times I use would be Expedia and the like.
There's no doubt that Delta picks and chooses the MQ flights they buy seats on. They used to always have seats on the last LAX-FAT flight of the day and that quit about 6 months ago.
The MQ code shares are a topic I intend to raise at the ATLDO meeting with the Delta executive types. My casual observations of the LAX end of the flights leads me to figure that about 50% of passengers the FAT-LAX MQ flights are transferring to DL. My suggestion is that DL convert the FAT-LAX market to OO flights (much like they did with LAX-SAN).
MO