Originally Posted by
DAL4EVER
"Separately, the U.S. Justice Department will continue an antitrust investigation of US Airways’ acquisition of the Washington slots from Delta, according to an e-mailed statement today from the agency."
So how does this work now? Will USAir divest the slots to DAL at LGA and wait for the Justice review's outcome or do they hold them and wait for the outcome?
So do we still get the LGA slots no matter what, or is this some nefarious SWA scheme to make us think we are getting them, ramp up and invest tons of money, only to be told to give up more slot charity to "most favored airline" or the deal's off?
As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.