Originally Posted by
hazelrah
It's quite true, but a bit of a red herring to this thread. Delta had its issues with performance metrics too post merger.
I don't think it is a red herring because I don't think a lot of these issues are because of the merger. Air Tran is doing much better than Southwest for on time arrivals so acquiring them actually improved Southwest's overall on time arrivals. The on time issues stem more from decreased turn around times, decreased layover duration, higher passenger loads etc. These are all issues that likely would have existed if the merger had not happened