Originally Posted by
Sez_Who
Okay you win, I’m kidding myself. Feel better?
I never said the tcon DM’s don’t “represent many,” only that they are a small subset of the entire DM universe. But since you know more, please tell me how many DM’s we are talking about here? Is it 200? 500? 5000?
Let’s say it is 1000 and they pay $500 r/t for 40 flts/yr. That’s $2 million in revenue per year. DL averages about $4 million every HOUR of every day. This is not a small subset?
I agree with you that these tcon DM’s are hit the hardest by these changes. Frankly not sure why DL did this but am willing to take a wild guess that they have more info than anyone here. Who knows, this may be a disaster and DL will change policy again. It’s not like they have never made midyears changes before.
Just an aside, the B6 plan sound interesting, indeed very interesting if they also decide to add lounges for these tcon flts. Then we may have a different ballgame.
Obviously I have no direct knowledge of such numbers either- my guess is as bad as yours, but my math is a tiny bit better: $20k x 1000 is $20m not $2m (but point still taken).