Originally Posted by
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A few years back, Delta cut back interlining with a lot of people, including cutting off American Airlines completely for awhile, but recently restored Delta-AA interlining.
That's not what happened at all.
DL raised their pricing and AA was too cheap to play along so AA cut ties. Then they had an epic meltdown and came back begging a year later. UA was willing to pay to play and did not have an interruption in service.