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Old Dec 30, 2013 | 12:18 pm
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Originally Posted by TheMoose
And not just MSP being your home base, but if your home base is only (or primarily) served by flights from MSP. Or you just prefer transiting MSP over ATL or other hubs.

Capacity discipline is a great theory, but hard to support when DL system-wide has only 0.4% fewer available seat-miles in 2012 vs. 2010. Compare that to MSP where DL has 8.9% fewer available seat-miles in 2012 vs. 2010. ATL, for comparison, has 1.2% more available seat miles in 2012 vs. 2010. DTW has 7.1% more available seat-miles in 2012 vs. 2010.

Capacity has been reduced slightly system-wide (or shifted to regional carriers or codeshares), but MSP has taken a significant hit in capacity compared to other hubs or the overall system.
I suspect that MSP has taken an even bigger hit on FC and BE capacity. For the NRT route, 747 to 777 to A330. For many domestic routes, the A319/320s with only 12 FC as well as fewer 757s and almost no wide bodies.
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