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Old Apr 5, 2019, 11:58 am
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Billy Mumphrey
 
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
I'm trying to see why it makes sense for DL to have some flights at a secondary leisure-oriented London airport with few onward partner connections. Surely it's expensive to maintain facilities and staff to operate two flights, and I would expect the yields to be bad.
This is Gatwick, not Luton. It's the 9th largest airport in Europe by passengers, roughly as busy as MUC or BCN. Most people flying Delta to London aren't connecting anyway. I wouldn't expect the yields to be bad at all.
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