Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
They should have done it this summer, loads are crazy. No way they don’t have great yields when it is near impossible to buy a ticket all month out of Japan to anywhere. Ticket prices were really high too last spring for summer travel. PDX is also on the chopping block. Long term why would you give these slots up? But the rumor is they are giving them up. Hope not. Other airlines will jump all over these slots.
I'm sure they'd love to keep the slot (I think they tried to transfer it a few times), they just don't want to fly from spoke to spoke. You're absoutely right, plenty of other airlines will b happy to take up the slot when the DOT gets tired of DL's games.