Those business travelers are booking with the corporate credit card, so with everything being equal, sure they will fly Delta if the middle seat is open. Meanwhile a 3% premium while 33% of the seats are blocked from
sale, though the holidays, with holiday travel around the corner? Did I miss the cancelation of Deltas furloughs on Nov 1, serious question? Because Delta doing a victory lap that the airline is keeping middle seats open for a few more months, while thousands are are about to be furloughed...

If Delta feels the open middle seat is their best business strategy to maintain business loyalty with their travelers, that’s all well and good. But to act like it’s not a marketing strategy, that’s silly. Delta tweeting about the Haunted Houses of other airlines is in fact a marketing strategy to make people feel safe on Delta

 

No, you and a few other conspiracy theory posters on here make up your own numbers, use anecdotal stories, and refuse to post legitimate sources of your claims due to supposed fake news/government/medical institutions. Basically anything you guys disagree with is dismissed as fake or some crazy conspiracy.

The frustrating part for me is I very much want the US to get past this BS. I know it’s possible, as I live in a city of 8 million people that has single digit COVID cases because people here aren’t claiming a bunch of crazy BS all the time.

I have zero understanding of why people like you are choosing this as the hill to die on, with absolutely nothing legitimate to back it up.

 

Well said.

 

Not well and good, because it is in fact a marketing strategy to make people feel UNSAFE on other carriers and a denial of the validity of the DARPA testing that was recently released. By both promulgating a non sustainable model (because Delta isn’t going to survive on 66% load levels and flogging unwarranted fears, Delta is hurting the whole industry.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/how-...itary-research

 

its their decision if they want to continue to block middle seats, if that is what they feel will generate a revenue premium and attract HVCs that is exactly what they will do. if companies and business travelers want this and DL will get long term corporate contracts because of this, DL will block middle seats til the pandemic is over

 

The risk is the same with or without masks actually, since there haven't been any cases.

 

Not correct, there were two cases of suspected transmission prior to masks being worn on planes early on. Since then, no cases have been shown to have occurred since mask usage was widely adopted. And the defense dept's recent study concluded masks are an integral part of it.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/risk...ry?id=73616599

 

No one said it wasn’t their decision, only that it wasn’t one that was good for the industry as a whole.Especially when they denigrate other airlines for not doing it.

 

Four months of no mask usage produced 2 possible cases, and six months of mask usage produced no cases. Good thing the media scared all the passengers away.

 

Mask or middle seats is not the real issue. The recent study shows how safe air travel is, but until domestic and international COVID restrictions are lifted, there isn’t really much of a need to travel. Even if we could provide a 100% guarantee that passengers would not contract COVID while traveling, why would they want to buy a ticket when the business/leisure attractions at their intended destination are closed or severely restricted? When the world opens back up, we’ll be ready to take people where they want to go. Until then, regardless of the safety of our product, there is very little demand for what we sell.