Originally Posted by
AAExPlat
I won't fly UA on personal international trips with the family unless it is a very short one. This X-mas, I am headed to Thailand with the fam and I didn't even bother to look at UA. Went straight to SQ and bought PE tix for a family of 4.
My family won't let me look at UA for anything but short low-risk domestic hops anymore -- not after a series of disastrous family-travel experiences in mid-decade, one involving my aged and semi-infirm mother-in-law getting kicked around the system and thrown out of F because she didn't know how to argue. Stuff like that sticks with you.
Originally Posted by
EWR764
Where has it been documented that Delta's SEA expansion has been profitable? ...AS has nearly matched DL's growth AND other carriers have admitted SEA is, in so many words, a bloodbath..
I think it's well understood that SEA has been no cakewalk for DL. It' not over, however; with AS shedding AA as a coordinate partner in most respects next year, SEA-based flyers who need a real domestic access have new incentive to jump from AS to DL.