Originally Posted by
gloopy
I'd like to see us be the only US airline to actually compete in MCO-EU. Its a massive market, with more heavy jumbos there at any given time than we have flying all over the world total (well, almost) and I think we can compete.
I could be wrong, but aren't the carriers that serve that market mostly low cost leisure carriers that pay their pilots considerably less than we make? If so, I assume that they charge a leisure market fare as well, with considerably lower margins than Delta needs to be substantially profitable.