I'm not sure about this. I just talked to the MSP General Manager for Delta a couple months ago and I asked him what's the future of Delta and MSP look like. He said that it's looking positive. He said that MSP is making lots of money and is one of the markets where we will see a significant amount of "up-gauging" in aircraft. He also said that the international flights are doing better than expected and he thinks we will see a couple more added this summer and next year (once the A330 mods are complete).

I don't think MSP is a Memphis or CVG type of situation. I think the shift in flying to Atlanta is more a product of capacity rather than finances. MSP is a two runway operation and even when it's VFR you often find yourself getting slowed down, delay vectors, or even holding. Atlanta can just handle much more traffic more efficiently than MSP.

Financially the twin cities has always been a gem for Northwest. There's alot of educated people in Minnesota with a relatively high medium income. And there are several fortune 500 businesses headquartered there and Delta has the corporate contracts locked up with most of them. I think one of the above graphs shows MSP with the second highest yields/departures in our system. As for the "low cost" carriers creeping in, I think most people are learning that Southwest rarely has the lowest fair anymore, and I think Delta is ok with Southwest and Sun Country picking off some of the low-fare vacation / Vegas flyers.

Yep...I have vacation next month and its showing 3:15 per day

Maybe they will build a satellite terminal in MSP and call it "Gilligan's Iceberg". :D

I thought "synergy" meant that the whole is greater then the sum of its parts...:rolleyes:

Oh, that's right, it's "merger", meaning the whole is LESS then the sum of its parts!

Is that thing still there in DFW? It's been many years since I've been through there, did they bulldoze it? If not, who's using it now? RJ's?

Oh, and re. March Madness...Yeah, gimme some of that Florida Gulf Coast love! I was just walking on their campus last week, my daughter wants to go there, I may let her, and I might have to get season tickets now! (here's a pict of the coach's wife!):eek:

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In 25years I'm flying my first ever all DH trip. Went JFK-SXM this AM, cancelled back to JFK, now on 440 DH to ATL, DH to JFK tomorrow.

Gilligans Island is now used by Spirit.

Impressive, sir.

Wow. That's pretty funny. :D

What route do you fly? Do you pretend that you're flying the plane when you're sitting back here? Don't they need you up front? Do you ever get scared up there? So tell me about the electronics thing... do they make us turn them off just to annoy us? You ever see a UFO? Are you the pilot or the copilot? Whats your least favorite airport to fly in to? So what branch of the military were you.... you weren't??? Tell me about that landing, was that a good one or a bad one? I usually fly American, but you guys were cheaper for this flight.


.... I need to get off reserve... I've been deadheading way too much.