So E posted this:
And we got this in response:
And this:
Why argue with it, when it wasn't what was asked?
E posted about total number of markets, not a percentage of anything.
So, how 'bout it? How many total cities (markets) has WN left over the course of it's history? Not a percentage, not a portion that involves overlapping networks; just a total number.
and yet neither you nor E nor anyone else has come up with the exact number of markets that either carrier MIGHT have had - yet you are convinced that I must be wrong.
DL has served over 1900 markets with its own or DCI metal sometime during the last 3 years. WN has served about 1400 markets.
I don't have the exact numbers in front of me because it wouldn't matter if I gave you the list of markets.
You'd still argue.
WN serves FEWER markets and has a smaller network than DL.
E's statement was that WN has cancelled fewer markets than DL in a season.
If season has anything to do with one of the 4 divisions of the year, E"s statement is categorically false.
WN cancelled more markets with the pulldown of FL than DL did in ANY one season.
And lest you argue that FL doesn't count, why should DL count shutting down the MEM hub but WN should be given a pass on the FL system that it dismantled?
and WN cancelled many of its own markets as well... cities like JAN etc were cancelled.
and if you'd like to go back a decade to DL's closure to DFW as a hub, then DL and every other legacy will have a longer history of everything - because DL has a longer history than WN. If you'd like to go back to when DL was flying the Atlantic and WN was flying 3 aircraft within Texas and then argue that WN cancelled less flights, then by all means make that comparison.
It also makes no sense.
and would you like to tell us where the employees who worked for WN ended up in the cities that WN has closed, INCLUDING THE FL CITIES AND INCLUDING THE ATL pulldown?
You love to argue that DL should have responsibility for restructuring its network after the NW merger but WN is not responsible for what happened after the FL merger.
whether you want to admit it or not, WN cancelled service involving more seats since the FL merger than DL has in total.
that's what happens when DL has 50 seat markets and FL/WN use mainline jets.
none of this has anything to do with the fact that the Paulding County commissioners will ever let any commercial service touch down OR take off - but I suppose if you want to have a pi89ng contest about DL or WN, we can surely do that