Originally Posted by Lighteningspeed

You sound like a broken record by repeating that the XJ inroad to the West is temporary. The 5 going to SLC for XJ is not going to be temporary for business reasons. I don't know how long you have been in this business but DAL is known to have several regionals in the same region to whipsaw between each other. DAL will keep adding few more routes to XJ to fly SLC to various other Western cities.

DAL is most likely to split the western routes to XJ, Pinnacle, and Compass in addition to Skywest. Compass is already flying to PHX and SEA, I believe and XJ is already flying to Montana, Wyoming, DEN and COS in Colorado. As a result DAL will most likely have XJ, Compass, and Pinnacle flying out in the West. Same goes for the Southeast and Southwest. We are already seeing that in the Southeast, as DAL added Fort Myers, in addition to Tampa and Valparaiso that XJ was already flying.