Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Bar, I have to agree with Elvis with the economy. If two people running for President are promising you different directions and the race is close then businesses (not Delta) will wait until after the election to determine their direction. I mean why throw your money in one direction or another if you don't know what's going to happen?

Same with Delta, why would they spend the money to increase seat inventory until they know what everyone else is going to do? I don't think they would increase capacity and hope people come, but rather, hold capacity down until it costs them money and then grow.

Which at this airline a jump in seat inventory would probably require GDP to jump from it's current 1.3% to 9% before they'd consider increasing capacity over increasing price.