Delta posts Monthly traffic

Ophir

Ophir

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Delta just posted their monthly traffic numbers. It is interesting to see a few things. Notably, their domestic RPM's are way down but their international RPM's are WAY up. This isn't too surprising given the ASM's they have now with a decline in domestic and pretty strong increase for international. And this is all with a month-to-month decrease in load factor of nearly 10%. Strangely enough, these figures seems a bit skewed with the ASA numbers in there for last year but not this year.

It looks like there is a continued push to take away routes from their regionals based on the ASM's in there. And man, that is a huge increase in international service.

What seems like the best news is a 2% increase in load factor YTD, even with a 2.3% increase in ASM's domestically.

(Just doing my best to have some insight on the unforeseeable.)
 
If anything you will see the Regionals fly more. The drop is probably because of the sale of ASA. Delta is cutting domestic service by 17% and increasing international 30. Someone is going to fly those routes so I am sure the regionals will pick that up
 
I dunno. When Delta drops a flight on our side we just lose the flight. I agree that the regionals are flying more and more routes but at the same time, we are at the whim of these companies. I think so of these routes are just disappearing.

On a same but different note, what do you think of Bombardier discontinuing the production of the 50 seat RJ?

BTW, here's that link for Delta's numbers http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/051103/89184.html
 
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