Originally Posted by
khergan
He's an annoying kool-aid chugger who has no identity outside of his employer, but he's also not wrong.
The gonkulator tells me that Delta’s pre-tax profit is ~59 % higher in cumulative absolute terms for YTD 2025. They're obviously doing something that we aren't, and simply buying a ton of airplanes isn't addressing that.
United is in aggressive competition in ORD with AA and SW in DEN. Who is DL in aggressive competition with? That’s probably a good chunk of the answer.
Also the weather in Q3 was a disaster everywhere….death by a thousand cuts. It wasn’t a single crowd strike week it was every damn day. Overall we handled it as well as we could have.