Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Not bizarre at all. We have had the mainline block hours shrinking a fairly steady 2 percent per year as capacity constraint became the management mania. This will be the first year in a long time where capacity is flat to a slight increase. As we move into next year the month over month increases become substantial in the second half of the year.
OK - Mainline block hours have been cut but what about the total passenger count for the DAL system?
I assume that DCI passenger counts have or will start to decrease but what does the picture look like if you throw in all of our codeshares/JV's/Alaska etc?
Basically - Is DAL selling less tickets as capacity has decreased over the last few years or are we simply outsourcing more passengers?
I don't know what the answer to that question is, but I am cautiously optimistic that either way the trend will start to turn positive soon.
Scoop