Originally Posted by
8C4IOW
I don't think that Delta will jump in the LAX-MKE route. Last time around Midwest handed them their customers with a code share and FF agreement, not sure how many people would book with Delta without the code share or FF agreement. Plus since Frontier is not flying the route Delta has no motivation to create more competition, lower fares for Frontier.
Southwest will have Airtran's numbers and will probably see a lot of red ink on the route and stay away from the LAX-MKE route as well.
I don't think Republic is interested in any more Q's.
Fair points.
Without competition on the route, there will be less fare pressure than what FL has had to deal with in past winters, so I'm still guessing that WN might give it a try for one winter during the integration process.
As for DL, there is still a significant number of Delta FF members in Milwaukee. In fact, before the DL/NW merger, I recall reading that MKE had the highest number of NW WorldPerks accounts of any non-NW hub except for SEA. DL is still the third busiest carrier at Mitchell.