Originally Posted by sailingfun

When Delta started their great retreat to Atlanta under Ron Allen DALPA brought in the EFA team to show that they could keep flying at the other hubs and not transfer so many pilots. Sadly the EFA team supported the decision to increase the flying in Atlanta. They stated it was the economic driver of the airline. With the merger that data is dated but Atlanta has always been a great market. In addition if you move flying to other hubs you have to give up the gates in ATL and allow more competing flying and drive yields down.