Originally Posted by
BearX220
This is exactly why Seattle-Tacoma doesn't want to transfer too many eggs into the Delta basket:
http://www.frequentbusinesstraveler....n-the-pacific/
No ex-SEA routes on the chopping block, but if we slipped back into recession or the Asian economy slowed further, they'd be vulnerable to slashing in a New York minute, followed by the DL-metal domestic routes that are only there to prop up the international ops.
Lovely to have these longhaul flights out of SEA as long as they last, but we'd be insane to count on them being around forever.
Umm, reducing the NRT hub was DL's main idea in making SEA into an Asia hub. I'd interpret the NRT-Asia route eliminations and the N. America-NRT capacity reductions primarily as shifting capacity to non-NRT Asia to go via SEA, certainly not as any sign of potential weakness for the SEA-Asia routes.