Originally Posted by
PilotFrog
AF is reducing capacity over the North Atlantic not increasing capacity on routes covered by the JV agreement. The share of flying each can do is carefully spilled out in the agreement and our section 1. That is why we are picking up AF's route from ORD to CDG. They had to move it over to Delta to keep within the contractual limits until we pick our flying back up in the spring.
There was a meeting back in July where they hammered out the JV cuts.
"Meanwhile, the announced 9 percent cut in combined transatlantic capacity across Delta, Air France-KLM and Alitalia operations "reflects an evolution of where we are in the running of the joint venture," said Delta senior vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa Perry Cantarutti, "and running it not just as a conglomeration of four networks but as its own business."