Originally Posted by 76drvr

I believe the issue is that DAL is losing money with DTW-HND, so it is cancelling service and attempting to use their HND slot from SEA. This opens up the bidding war.

For me it is quite simple. There is no downside with us keeping a HND slot, there is a downside with losing a HND slot, therefore I took 1 minute out of my day and sent Lahood a message.