Originally Posted by sailingfun

Delta does plan on keeping capacity flat for the most part in its system. Lucky for us they plan on reducing RJ's hulls and increasing mainline hulls. Capacity will be flat for 2013 at the mainline until Sep and then it starts to ramp up while RJ's ramp down. You also have to keep in mind who a investor conference is for and how wall street currently views capacity in the airline industry. The mainline at Delta is projected to grow.

Here is what the company put out on 13 Feb. Capacity will be stable system wide for 2013. Domestic capacity will be up 1 percent with the mainline seeing slightly higher increases. The summer international flying will be the same as 2012. Keep in mind in 2013 we only pick up about 20 new airframes in the last quarter only. In 2014 it will be more like 60 new airframes not counting the additional aircraft being discussed now. They expect manning to be tight this summer. Management turned down flight ops request to hire some pilots this winter to smooth the training flow so its going to be interesting if we get a bad summer weather wise.