Originally Posted by hfly

Since 1997 Delta has flown nonstop between JFK-IST (previous to this it was via FRA). Fifteen years have passed and with a short exception in 2001 when they had a VERY successful 3x MD11 service to ATL (which was not brought back due to 9/11 and has been much spoken about but not restarted in all the years since) they have the same service, a daily flight most of the year which is reduced to 4 or 5x in the winter. DL was by far the choice for this route and quite frankly no one preferred TK.

In the meantime Turkish Airlines has not only gone from having a 1x daily service (after having previously done so via BRU) to a 2x daily service and as just announced for this summer a 3x daily service! This is in addition to TK daily service to LAX as well as services to Chicago, Washington and Toronto, they are currently mulling other North American destinations as well.

What on Earth is Delta thinking? Are they going to do a BOM and after having done nothing worthwhile for years to improve their competitive situation, abandon the route? I would really hope/think that Delta should be considering getting the ATL route back up pretty quickly if they want to compete??!!