On Sunday I wrote about how Delta is cutting frequencies on their Atlanta to Dubai flight this winter. Presently Delta operates daily Boeing 777-200LR flights between Atlanta and Dubai, though as of later this year they'll be cut to 4-5 weekly. What's to blame for the frequency cut? Likely a strong US dollar and low…
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Isn't ATL-DXB returning as a daily frequency in Spring 2016 anyways? Not sure how there's overcapacity to the ME if Delta will be flying daily alongside QR and TK in S2016.
Mind you Emirates' response was purely in response to Delta's hence their spokesman said "...consumer demand or overcapacity is not the issue". Therefore yield is not the issue here Lucky.
Delta hasn't talked about it hence Emirates was smart enough not to refer to it as well.
The raucous by DL was overcapacity EK responded smartly enough by saying your load factor is >85%.
Well-played Emirates.
Delta's anti-government subsidy stance is an interesting change of pace. This must mean their backing off of their opposition to the Paulding airport expansion too.
Well done ! Anderson needs to back out of this as quickly as he can before he becomes an even bigger @#$@$
For me my next long haul flight is on EK
Delta and the other American carriers don't like it that government subsidized Middle Eastern carriers "steal demand", but they sure are quiet about the fact that the US government keeps all of their foreign competition out of the US domestic market... sounds like a good subsidy to me. And the US flyer suffers the consequences of sub-par service and no alternatives.
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Why does this keep happening on your blog?
Except that ECON101 will teach you that reducing demand and pushing down prices are two sides of the same coin. If you reduce demand for a product, price will fall given the same level of supply.
I agree that this is purely a political play and Delta should be arguing that decreasing yield makes the route unviable because there is no evidence that they are selling less (assuming the load factor is correct).
What's more ludicrous is Delta's lobbying against Ex/Im Bank. It is paying [its most attractive] flight attendants to lobby HEAVILY against renewing Ex/Im Bank. Friend of mine is doing it. Emirates pays a little less interest when it buys Boeing jets due to Ex/Im loan guarantees. We figured it at about 8 cents per seat per flight. FAs of course weren't given the math, simply told that the advantage Emirates gets from the loan guarantees costs Delta jobs.
Not sure why Delta wants Emirates to buy Airbus planes instead, but that's the likely result.
For those who don't know, Ex/Im Bank doesn't cost taxpayers anything - last year it PAID $785 million to US Treasury. Yeah, it MAKES money.
The reduction comes amid overcapacity on US routes to the Middle East operated by government-owned and subsidised airlines, Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter told Reuters this week. Emirates said Delta has no head to head competition as it is the only airline currently flying direct between Atlanta and Dubai.
Not really up on the economics/geopolitical issues fluently discussed here, but after flying ATL-DXB in BC/Delta One this year, it was easily seen, IMHO, that the product, old metal (especially), and overall comfort was not very good. Uncomfortable, narrow, and hard lie-flat seats, and a somewhat dreary interior spelled "no-more-for-me" on this flight. I'd easily now rather fly EY or QR to their M.E. hubs and transfer to DXB, notwithstanding having to fly to somewhere else in the USA, instead of ATL.