Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I will second the LAX base. Here at ASA they drastically reduced the expansion out in LA. It is basically a forgone conclusion from many on the top here at ASA that Express Jet will be the new Delta Connection out in LA. You have then planes and are willing to take a fairly good hit just to have them fly and make some sort of revenue.
Express doesn't need to take a "hit" just to keep the planes flying. We could have taken a "hit" and kept flying them for CAL. Our management didn't want to fly the planes if it wasn't going to bring in a certain amount of revenue. We can make more money if we just park the planes then to fly them for what CAL wanted us too, so why would we do that for Delta.
As for the LAX thing, it might be possible especially with our Mexico presence and with Delta starting flights from LAX to several places in Mexico. But I would still be surprised if that happened.