Originally Posted by
Grumble
Delta 5 steps ahead? How’d they do coming out of Covid retiring fleets when we kept growing? This mgmt is not full of chicken littles
like you. There has been a paradigm shift and when there is blood in the water they attacked.
The sky is not falling, and any weakness shown by one of our competitors will be taken advantage of by this mgmt, which is a serious change in strategy from decades past.
Didn’t Delta objectively do better (making more) coming out of COVID? Can anyone say for sure retiring those 777’s was a mistake? United absolutely seems more aggressive as of late, but aggression doesn’t equal success. Although, United is clearly succeeding lately taking advantage of overlap from AA and WN.
I’m positive any competitor would take advantage of each other if they have the resources to do so; I’m sure would Delta would jump on United if they made a mistake in LAX and I believe, DL and AA will everything in their power to keep UA from establishing a full sized hub in the Southwest U.S. I see Delta getting their AUS “mini” hub up and running post terminal-B construction before a MCO hub for any legacy.
Management teams come and go. EB already has backups in place for his leave and SK is past his midpoint. Will be interesting to see how the next management teams bring the companies