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Old 09-26-2019, 01:19 PM
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-airlines-m-a-delta-air/delta-to-buy-20-of-latam-for-1-9-billion-in-regional-shake-up-idUSKBN1WB2UZ
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They’re just positioning themselves to takeover Latin America once AA collapses in the next downturn.

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Huge news. Surprised it hasn’t gotten more play on CNR. If AA loses dominance in South America I’m not sure what’s left.

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Is Miami going to be the next LA? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/business/delta-spend-billion-stake-south-american-airline/FKjYXKaRL3DH7mu2Nf4rSO/amp.html

Delta to split SA between Miami and Atlanta. I see a large build up in Miami very soon. Pilot hiring at Delta is supposedly 1000-1500 next year with even larger number of FAs. I expect a strong push into Miami. I can see the A220 being a big player in Miami.
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Is Miami going to be the next LA? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/business/delta-spend-billion-stake-south-american-airline/FKjYXKaRL3DH7mu2Nf4rSO/amp.html

Delta to split SA between Miami and Atlanta. I see a large build up in Miami very soon. Pilot hiring at Delta is supposedly 1000-1500 next year with even larger number of FAs. I expect a strong push into Miami. I can see the A220 being a big player in Miami.
I am pretty sure ramp and ground gonna greet them the MIA way: gate's occupied, double Juliet, short of November, monitor ramp.

Delta has already invested huge amounts into AeroMexico, not sure I have seen a big change.

Edit: Whatever happened to KDA?

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this is really bad news for AA.
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Is Miami going to be the next LA? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/business/delta-spend-billion-stake-south-american-airline/FKjYXKaRL3DH7mu2Nf4rSO/amp.html

Delta to split SA between Miami and Atlanta. I see a large build up in Miami very soon. Pilot hiring at Delta is supposedly 1000-1500 next year with even larger number of FAs. I expect a strong push into Miami. I can see the A220 being a big player in Miami.
The 1,000-1,500 number accounts for retirements and the lack hiring that we didn’t do last year.
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I thought delta hired 900+ last year?
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2019 YTD income

AA
Domestic - $640m (operating revenue $15.6b)
Latin America - $475m (operating revenue $3.1b) 15% margin
Atlantic - $1m
Pacific - (-$172m)

Delta
Domestic - $1.3b (operating revenue $16.6b)
Latin America - $184m (operating revenue 1.6b) 11% margin
Atlantic - $541m
Pacific - $133m

You can see by those numbers that despite our comparatively lower revenue in Latin America vs domestically, we make more money there on a % basis. If I'm reading the data right our margin in LA is roughly 4x what it is domestically.

Delta's numbers show how little profit they get from there, but that it is, most likely, the easiest place they can expand to increase revenue the quickest. Buying into LATAM was basically a way to buy feed for their flights I'm guessing, since LATAM doesn't really make any money on their actual ticket sales.

AA has said LATAM feed represents a nominal $20m a year revenue impact. However I think one impact will be all of a sudden having another competitor selling tickets side by side with them.

AA does 75% of the flying in MIA, Delta under 15%.

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We’re screwed. All your base are belong to Delta.
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