Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
I personally think Delta is 100 percent full of crap when it comes to AUS. They are negotiating for real estate there. They are already fully engaged in turf wars in several other locations. Unless they have some secret aircraft order that they aren't disclosing, they will be forced to either redeploy capacity from elsewhere or call up the SkyWest armada in order to grow by a huge margin in AUS. Either way, it feels like a paper tiger. Southwest currently has a huge margin in Austin and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future.
I still don't see a crew base for the reasons I stated previously.
Delta basically paid SkyWest to open a crew base in Austin and squat on gates for awhile. They fly half empty ERJs around Texas daily. Waiting for Daddy D To move in.
And then Delta already announced it as a Flight Attendant crew base. If they're full of crap about Austin they have a weird way of showing it.