Originally Posted by
ERflyer
Moscow won’t come back until Russia leaves Crimea, stops supporting “rebels” in eastern Ukraine and sanctions are removed. I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
Seems like other markets would support an ER but I don’t know and do not have the data either. Sailing asserts that Delta makes more money on Delta metal and that seems correct. If we could make a decent yield we would be all over it. Seems more likely that Delta is moving Delta metal to make the most money.
That seems like a pretty weak sanction then. Bad country! No! Get out of there! And if you don't, well, then, um, we'll force some of the people flying there to connect on our European (and even Russian) partners to our flag carriers instead of going direct! Ha! We showed you!
As far as Delta metal goes, while we may make more money all things equal, there is still the large issue of our partners sometimes irrational behavior like refusing to accomidate a economically justified US-direct flight by adjusting their marketshare capacity down a little vs doing it themselves with guaranteed more profitable (to them) feed. Kind of like when AF refused to pull down the logical and appropriate amount last theatre downturn so DL said "welp, we'll just pull down below our contractual floor cause AF is soverign and they call the shots!"