Originally Posted by
kjnangre
No, it's not! If you want an analogy: it's like parents saying you can have a puppy, but you have to feed and walk it everyday! And the kid replying, that's a lot of responsibility, I think I'll pass. I'll just play with the neighbor's puppy instead
Actually, for your analogy to work, the parents would have already given their kid the puppy. @:-)
If Delta had their way, they would still be holding on to their SEA-HND route authority and only operating it a few months out of the year. But the DOT set the demands in order for Delta to continue keeping it. Delta did not volunteer to surrender the authority on their own initiative.