Originally Posted by
Tomcat
Slowplay, thanks for your response. Mexico (PVR & CUN) has been the bulk of my flying over the last 18 months. It has slowed considerably in the last 2-3 months. I completely understand what your saying, but I just have to say that once again, we are losing flying for whatever reason and it is unlikely to return to Delta. Just very disappointing. I hope that you can understand and appreciate the perspective of the average "linedog".
There always seems to be some reason that we lose our flying, but never many reasons to regain it.
V/R, TC
Tomcat,
I understand your frustration. After the Western merger Delta was the dominant carrier for a very short period of time at LAX. We made money 87-91, then lost our butts. We abandoned all but MEX and GDL (we used to fly IXT, ZIH, ACA, PVR, MZT from LAX). We also downgauged tremendously, going from DC-10's to MEX to 737-300's, and decreased frequency from 5 per day to one or two depending on season. Same for GDL, cutting flights back to one per day. I point that out because
we did regain some MEX flying over the last 3 years, in destinations, frequency, and gauge. Unfortunately for you, most of it came from east coast growth. LAX has, to be polite, some vicious competition for north-south flows. O&D traffic in a leisure market (all the beach destinations) isn't a great way to make money if you're a full service network airline.
I know it's not what you want to hear, but it's the way I see it.