Originally Posted by
turbojet28
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.
It’s probably one of the best airports delta has to offer, it just turned 20 years old but still looks fairly new
during COVID it was gutted especially the connecting Midwest cities mainly due to regional jet crew shortage. However more and more mainline is coming back, most of the 717 coming back on line are headed up To dtw.
the recovery of Asia plays into the base more than anything else,
crew wise it’s still the third largest base in the system, and it is situated well geographically.
delta has said it’s core hubs will see most growth this year so we will see what happens.