Originally Posted by Mesabah

Things look bleak for Alaska, no doubt about that. However Delta's bread and butter will be domestic, and perhaps South America. Asia is going to be a dead stick soon. I don't know the time frame on that, but the majority of that part of the world is one gigantic fraud. They have entire cities built that no one lives in, and they are starting to build huge complexs in the middle of the ocean, with plans to immediately abandon them. Also, China would love to sell its treasury hoard, and stick it to the US, but their dirty little secret is they can't. Everyone on Wall Street knows this including Delta management. Delta might look to be building up now, but they are pulling out, and have been for many years. The A350 is the perfect plane to be redeployed elsewhere when that happens. ACL65 and I had this discussion in 2010 on the L&G, here are the posts: