Originally Posted by
fly18725
Delta has effectively adopted the same loyalty and pricing model you describe for UAL. Why has this turned out differently for them? Better meals in domestic first?
Leadership and execution?
Also, DL has made improvements across the board and focused on such, whereas UA seems to think that because DL has a fairly poor FF program, they can match them at the bottom without matching the improvements DL has made. They're improving operationally (when was the last time UA had a day without a single cancellation in the system, something DL has accomplished several times now?).