Originally Posted by
slowplay
Nope. From FAA passenger enplanement statistics for the 5 LA Basin airports (LAX, SNA, BUR, LGB, ONT) combined:
Airline 2008 2010
Delta 3,917,308 3,900,127
Alaska 2,220,377 1,960,141
So we carried 17000 fewer pax and they carried 260,000 fewer since we started codesharing with them.
Oh, in case you didn't notice, the Seattle pilot base (which has way more codeshare exposure) has doubled in size. Maybe you can come to ATL and enjoy some of those nice UIO and GYE 3 days.
Call me greedy, and I'm fine by the that, but what was the narrowbody flying count yoy between Delta and Alaska in terms of flights?
Because I don't fly passengers, I don't fly ASMs, I fly airplanes. I'd rather see a fleet of 763s over a fleet of A380s if ASMs remained equal. So to me fewer planes means fewer pilots and that's the comparison I want to see.