[QUOTE=Han Solo;2632423]No, you just choose to pick and choose what you respond to. First you claim the block hour program is driven by marketing and that jet fuel prices drive marketing.
But now apparently a leased plane vs. a paid for plane is what's important in the decision on which planes to park and which to fly.
Can you tell me how these two statements contradict each other? One deals with why a airline might want to slow growth or reduce capacity and the other with how they would do it.
As far as managements mouthpiece I am simply stating what they publically put out. In fact at one of the road shows they had a PowerPoint slide saying “MD88, the accumulator fleet”. I suspect you were not around when they used it that way.
As far as the start of this discussion Delta can make more rapid capacity changes the UAL or American. When you decrease capacity you incur a rise in cost per seat mile. Delta can do it for a lower increase by virtue of our fleet makeup.