Originally Posted by
Avroman
True but it causes immense additional costs and delays/cancelations by pulling a company so far from its crew/maintenance bases. Now if Delta wants to operate in a much more expensive way for the sake of avoiding a strike that hasn't even come close to happening since Comair in 01.... Well no wonder the passengers see right through the customer first B.S. they have been peddling.
Customers sure seem to be buying though, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of profit each quarter. Does Delta have enough money to keep uprooting the regionals if they so choose? Sounds like the answer is YES.