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Old Nov 7, 2014 | 8:41 pm
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Originally Posted by kettle1
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DOMESTIC SHARE:

Delta 16.6%
Southwest 16.3%
United 15.4%
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Source: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/
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Those number quoted were
Market share based on Revenue Passenger Miles August 2013 - July 2014.
not passengers

Originally Posted by kettle1
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12 months ending July 2014 domestic passengers carried:

DL 102,461K
UA 64,800K

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So raw number of domestic passagner are 60% more for DL vs UA

Also shows the domestic stage length of DL is 2/3' of UA.
Originally Posted by kettle1
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I started this thread about all flights, not just domestic.
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with some free/included bags on international routes, suspect domestic is a higher revenue producer.

For 2013
Code:
                                 Passengers
                 Domestic       International      Total
2013	UA 	65,113,482	24,164,556	  89,278,038
2013	DL 	98,372,322	20,561,599	 118,933,921
Still 33% higher even if the small DL international traffic is included. But international is 20 to 30% of the total passagner count, so domestic is likely driving the numbers.

So the 34% bag rev boost for DL on 33% (to 60% domestic only) more passengers totals seems to make sense.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Nov 7, 2014 at 11:18 pm Reason: 2013 data
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