Originally Posted by
RealHJ
Delta has never really been an international airline. It acquired one (NW), and then set out to destroy it and erode all the value that it had gotten.
That is a categorically false statement, disproved by ASMs, revenue, and destinations. NW was, objectively, a smaller international carrier pre-merger and the combined DL has seen increases in international ASMs and revenue that currently exceed that of the pre-merger combined carriers.