Originally Posted by
Vikz09
Well I hope this is not a sign of things to come. Today Delta and Virgin Atlantic received their approval to begin the JV. The result 7 daily flights from NYC-LHG... of those 7 flights, Delta gets 3 (its sad that every time I see a code share or JV, I just assume we will be on the short end)
Adding salt into the wound, the Vikings charter to London for Sunday's game is not on the official airline of the Vikings, rather it's on our new subsidiary Virgin Atlantic. The hits just keep coming!
#not holding out hope we improve our pacific language
Virgin Atlantic is all about access to LHR. It is a very tightly controlled very expensive airport to gain access to. This JV is going to be very complicated because of all the players. My bet is that we are not going to see much similarity to the AF/KLM JV because VA isn't going to give up those slots to DAL just because we are a partial owner. Where we are probably going to benefit... and there are many here that are going to go into high warble... will be thru domestic growth. They are going to feed us on this end, and our part in the equation will be limited to flying the slots we have to LHR... as a destination. They have little beyond flying. We probably won't see the international growth because of those slots...
Just dot connecting. It ain't rocket surgery either.