Originally Posted by
lougord99
It is highly unlikely that the combined airline will have anywhere near the number of enplanements that the two carriers have seperately.
Oh I don't know,... The whole idea IS to grow. Perhaps there will be some divestitures in some redundant cities but for the most part I expect Southwest to operate most FL markets. Southwest says they're keeping the 717s so with the capacity staying the same, I would imagine Southwest intends to keep their fleet utilization relatively high. Even with that said the combined numbers are about 86 million compared to DL's 74 million. That's a healthy buffer of 12 million.