As someone who is potentially looking at basing a career decision on the viability of a DTW base at Delta, I was hoping to start a little discussion about its future at the airline. I acknowledge that most of this is “crystal ball”-type stuff.

Taking a look from a macro prospective, Detroit as a city seems to have factors playing against it when you start to look on a 15-30 year horizon. It’s a rust-belt town not unlike CLE, PIT, CVG, etc - all cities that seem to be in various states of socioeconomic decline, and have been for a number of decades.

How do you all see DTW as it pertains to Delta’s network in the long-term? I know a substantial amount of it’s traffic is connections, not O&D.

I know a lot of this is hard to predict, but I was just hoping to get a general idea from those more “in the know” about what the general trajectory of DTW as a base has (or will) look like for Delta.