Alaska and Delta are continuing to go at it in Seattle in what can only be described as the biggest frenemy (or maybe now just enemy) battle of 2014. To (very) briefly recap, it got serious last year when Delta announced huge international expansion out of Seattle, which Alaska was justifiably excited about, since they…
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what is sad about this is if they do cut ties where will we credit Delta flights we must take once in a while? This will be a reason to avoid Delta at all cost even on a paid ticket.
Lucky, the question is how much more money does Delta actually make off of outsourcing to sky west instead of the code share with Alaska? To someone like myself who is an outsider looking in it is six of one half a dozen the other...
Hmm. I've specu-guessed about this before, though I have no direct information on the subject: My guess is that Delta's real objective is to eventually acquire Alaska.
The problem is that the more routes you overlap on with a competitor, the less likely the DOJ is going to let you go through with the merger (since obviously, any route you overlap on = a competitor goes away). If anything, DL making a major push in SEA makes a merger with AA, WN or UA more feasible than with DL...
WN is jumping in to the fun, too. They have announced new service from both SAN and PDX. From SAN they will be adding flights to MCO, PDX and SEA - all routes served by AS.
It's getting hot in here.