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Originally Posted by Dharma (Post 2367630)

Shouldn't the subsidy be proportional to the size of the country's GDP? Wouldn't that make the subsidy to us about a $gazillion?

So true! But I pay enough taxes already.

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Originally Posted by astroglider (Post 2366824)

The battle against the ME3 was lost ten years ago. I'm sorry to say that NOBODY is on OUR side on this one. JetBlue, Virgin America/Alaska, Hawaiian, FedEx, UPS and American either codeshare directly with one or all of the ME3 airlines or have a cargo facility located over there that makes them side with the ME3. Congress, the President and the American people are on the side of the ME3 as well. Congress has been bought off, the President has hotels over there and Boeing has Trump in their pocket etc...and the American voter HATES our airlines.

This battle was lost almost a decade before the former Delta CEO started organizing a campaign to fight the ME3 a few years ago.

If oil stays weak, as it has been, they will be forced to take profits and losses into account. With oil north of $100/barrel their economies could rely heavily on oil import dollars. OPEC tried to BK the frackers and it did not work. It looks like cheap oil might be around for quite a while. This is probably our best hope regarding the ME3.

Scoop

Curious, they didn't mention who will operate these.

Delta and Aeromexico expand options for U.S.-Mexico travel | Delta News Hub

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Originally Posted by Dharma (Post 2367630)

Shouldn't the subsidy be proportional to the size of the country's GDP? Wouldn't that make the subsidy to us about a $gazillion?

Exactly. Of course we can't match per capita subsidies like that, so we need to force the mass pull down of their illegal routes.

They can have as many as we do, which for now is zero. We'll round up and give them one per day.

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Originally Posted by notEnuf (Post 2368776)

Curious, they didn't mention who will operate these.

Delta and Aeromexico expand options for U.S.-Mexico travel | Delta News Hub

They did mention. Most of the flights will be operated by Aeromexico. The JFK to Cancun and LAX to Cabo will be Delta.

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Originally Posted by Dharma (Post 2370132)

They did mention. Most of the flights will be operated by Aeromexico. The JFK to Cancun and LAX to Cabo will be Delta.

Looks like they updated the article with the list and map. I suspected the majority of the expansion wouldn't be delta metal.