More Horizon route cuts: The juggling continues
Apr 8, 2018, 12:09 pm
#76
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Fully agree. AS will allow the Canadian market to wither away as they focus on Cal. When load factors drop and/or AS needs the aircraft elsewhere they will slowly withdraw. That has already begun. Meanwhile the DL WS partnership will gladly take over the traffic into SEA. This is just another cut in Delta's "kill them with a thousand cuts" strategy in SEA vs Alaska.
Apr 8, 2018, 1:36 pm
#77
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Fully agree. AS will allow the Canadian market to wither away as they focus on Cal. When load factors drop and/or AS needs the aircraft elsewhere they will slowly withdraw. That has already begun. Meanwhile the DL WS partnership will gladly take over the traffic into SEA. This is just another cut in Delta's "kill them with a thousand cuts" strategy in SEA vs Alaska.
Apr 8, 2018, 7:02 pm
#79
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Remember for the transborder market, the point of sale significantly favors Canadian side, so AC with its dominant hub in YVR, YYZ and YUL + WS with its dominant hub in YYC will always dominate the traffic to the top American markets. That's why AA struggles now into Canada, why UA let AC do all the flying in the JV and why DL is doing JV with WS.
Apr 9, 2018, 2:41 pm
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Fully agree. AS will allow the Canadian market to wither away as they focus on Cal. When load factors drop and/or AS needs the aircraft elsewhere they will slowly withdraw. That has already begun. Meanwhile the DL WS partnership will gladly take over the traffic into SEA. This is just another cut in Delta's "kill them with a thousand cuts" strategy in SEA vs Alaska.
Apr 9, 2018, 4:44 pm
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Apr 9, 2018, 9:32 pm
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Apparently my family had a schedule change for Feb 19 with a return from AMS via YEG...so we got zapped by this change as well 