Originally Posted by
hurnik
A few stupid questions:
1) UA I believe stated they weren't going to affect "hub to hub". If Delta does the same, what exactly is "hub to hub" (given the list of airports)? I'm guessing it would be something like ATL-MSP, ATL-DTW, or something like that?
2) Free cancellations and all, but I'm guessing refunds are still in the limited 1-year voucher formats unless you purchased refundable fair?
The problem with this strategy for DL is UA does a better job of balancing connections between the different hubs, whereas DL puts all their eggs in one basket (ATL). And because of that, most of the reroutes would somehow need to get to/from ATL.
Where it really breaks down is that there isn’t enough slack on the ATL-DTW/MSP/SLC/etc. flights to account for that. It’s one of those things where it’d be nice if DL always maintained excess capacity on ATL-DTW/MSP/SLC for regular IROP situations, but of course DL would be losing $ on normal operation days, so they don’t.