Originally Posted by
wags3539
Just hop on Delta.com and plug in some random city pairs and you can see that demand is ticking back up. I looked at a few round trips from DTW-LAX, DTW-SFO for next week, and quite a few are sold out. Granted that's with the 60% capacity restriction, but it's clear that there is a pent up travel demand. Zoom meetings can only accomplish so much. Anybody I've talked to, stuck working from home, is done with this. They can't wait to get back to work.
I agree. While I don't think 2019 numbers will happen this year of course, it seems like a very realistic possibility that the company could panic/groupthink into irreversible spastic reductions just in time to lose out on many billions in revenue, profit and even long term marketshare in some situations. That's why significant excess airframes and staffing has to be carried in one form or another for a while to see how this shakes out.