Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
LAX will grow very large. for 2 reasons. Delta wants to expand that base very large and right now American Eagle flys for delta. The reason is 5 years ago delta came to asa to try and open a LA base with something like 30 a/c. the then prez Skip Barnett said that was impossible for ASA to do since we were already expanding in DFW. The flying was given to American Eagle. This has always been a problem for delta since they don't want delta pax flying on Americans A/C. The plan is to slowing grow LAX for ASA and delta connection and eventually drop eagle out of the picture.
I see LA as the next DFW for ASA with massive growth for it.
Makes perfect sense for Delta; why use AMR Eagle when you can use a real DL Connection carrier?
As far as 'massive growth' at LAX, I don't think so. The market is saturated, both AA/UA have hubs, with over 150 daily SWA flights and US is growing. And, they just closed 25R, which brings down LAX to a 3-runway operation instead of 4. In other words, no capacity for growth.