Originally Posted by
vincentharris
I never said below market value, DL is taking advantage of AirTran leaving and not considering WN a "competitor" like AirTran was as such prices in ATL have gone up substantially.
JetBlue is a direct competitor (similar business structure to AirTran) which will force DL to be more competitive in pricing.
Though places like ORD where AA, United, and DL all fly non stop from ATL, DL is more times then not twice as much if not more then AA & United so maybe DL just dosent care?
I mean't more that DL doesn't like that B6 is coming to ATL, as no business likes more competition, but they aren't really going to mess with them like what happened with QR. As B6 is a rational competitor that has to answer to share holders about the bottom line. Share holders that won't tolerate a 30% Load factor ex ATL indefinitely.
QR will keep the ATL/DOH flight no matter what the LF is and totally indifferent to the profits/losses of the flight because they aren't a rational competitor.
<CLARIFICATION> I don't mean rational in terms of sanity, but rational in terms of operating like a normal business, where if there is no way for the route to become profitable, the route would be dropped.