Originally Posted by
ab2013
If anything, DL is retreating a bit in some places (e.g. FAI is now back down to an ERJ for half of the year, no more red eye to MCO during the summer) and will be exiting a couple Canadian markets later this year (YYJ/YEG).
You recognize that in 2014 DL said they were going to have 150+ peak day flights by summer 2017, they had that many flights, and had 174 for summer '18, right? You recognize that they add 2x the Available Seat Miles just by upgauging a couple of SEA-Asia flights to 339s vs. cutting YYJ and YEG? Port of Seattle passenger share data show a 4.7 point decline for AS/QX/VX 2013 to 2018. Delta/Delta Connection added 5.4 points of share. Revenue Passenger Miles (which we don't see U.S. carriers report by hub in their quarterly SEC filings )would be a much better measure of share. A Q400 219 miles Seattle-Kelowna doesn't have the revenue potential of a 333 SEA-AMS.
Be happy for the price competition and the 2-class E75s Delta forced AS to add to the fleet. If that's failure in SEA, other carriers would take it all day long.
https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/a...ska-vs-delta-0