eolesen said:
Let WT live out his delusions of grandeur.
The facts remain that DL hasn't filed a single challenge in court.
With everything else that isn't getting thru Congress at the moment, this is a miniscule issue, involving a corporation (with a dominant national presence) who feels it has somehow been disenfranchised.
The harsher reality -- any attempts to try and change Wright won't happen for at least a year (if an attempt even managed to get out of committee).
I'd still say that WN's goodwill with the media and Congress exceeds DL's right now.
DL might have deeper pockets, but WN's still viewed as an airline of the people. DL's an evil corporation. Getting over those two perceptions will be harder than convincing a judge to overturn Federal law and a settlement agreement signed NINE YEARS AGO.
and whether any of that is true or not has nothing to do with airport access. Either the market is freely open has nothing to do with who sucks up more or not.
WN's marketing machine has done a great job over the years... but no other carrier has cut as much service after a merger as WN has done. they want desperately for everyone to forget that but DL will have no problem highlighting to legislators that WN isn't the champion of the people that they claim to be.
Add in the fact that WN really is not the lowest fare carrier in many markets when compared to other carriers and WN might well find that its so-called halo is a lot more tarnished than they want to appeal.
What is more telling is that DL hasn't pulled its flights from DAL for sale. Despite the proclamations of airline forum's pundits, DL hasn't decided that it isn't willing to accept that it is out of the picture at DAL.
As long as flights remain for sale, then it says that DL continues to work behind the scenes to get what it is good for DL and American consumers
It also highlights how badly AA/US fans really understand the industry that they continue to cheer against DL in this whole DAL access issue when it is clear that a stronger WN will be a far bigger threat to AA than if DL gets even some of the access.
Every additional flight that WN can add compared to AA's size makes it that much greater of a threat to AA. But since so many people on here even believe that WN is a threat to AA anyway, it isn't surprising.
A divided DAL is far better for AA than to have a strong WN dominate the airport unchallenged - and no other LFC has the financial depth to seriously challenge WN.
WN wants the weakest possible competitor it can have at DAL if they have to have any competition. The fact that the AA/US fan club on here can't get it is indicative of their lack of understanding of what is really at stake.
700UW said:
Jetblue is 1, DL is 2 at JFK.
yet, DL is the largest airline in the total NYC market... and there is no * about the NY or NJ side - in total passenger boardings.
UA is still #1 in the area in terms of revenue because UA has a higher percentage of int'l flights.
Based on total revenue, AA/US is a distant #3.