Comments on: Delta’s Big Move in Austin: Questionable New Flights as American Airlines Cedes Ground

By: Airport Ambush: Delta's Stealthy Takeover of Austin's Scarce Gates - View from the Wing

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:06:03 +0000

[…] Air Lines went big into Austin once American Airlines pulled back flights. Based on early sales and pricing it looks like Delta […]

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Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:06:07 +0000

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By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 01:33:29 +0000

@Bill- Rutrow Bill, guess YOU should’ve checked for grammatical errors before you posted your critique of Gary’s errors…lol (sorry, I couldn’t resist

By: vbscript2

vbscript2 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:53:13 +0000

Honestly, starting some regional flights to smaller cities in Texas from AUS makes sense to me for Delta, though it would not for UA or AA. For UA or AA, it would make vastly more sense to serve those cities from IAH or DFW, respectively. For Delta, though, their next-best option would be to fly all the way from either SLC or ATL, either of which would cost a lot more to operate and would be dramatically out-of-the-way for passengers headed in the other direction (i.e. SLC is out-of-the-way for those heading East and ATL for those heading West.) While connecting through AUS on to a hub is not as useful as connecting through IAH or DFW to virtually anywhere, it does beat having to fly all the way to SLC to go East or all the way to ATL to go West. At the cost of an extra connection, it would save 4+ hours of flying time over going to ATL to get to the West Coast, for example. Serving those cities from both SLC and ATL probably wouldn’t be financially viable for Delta with current traffic levels, so this seems like the least bad option for Delta to get a foothold in smaller markets around Texas, given the Texas-sized hole in their route network.

By: vbscript2

vbscript2 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:33:20 +0000

@bhcompy

Liberia the city (in Costa Rica,) not Liberia the country.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:35:14 +0000

Gary- you mention that American is stopping service to Punta Canada.

Where is that? I’ve never heard of a place called Punta Canada.

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:44:50 +0000

@bhcompy, I guess that you aren’t familiar with Costa Rica, as Liberia is a major city there and an easier access point to the northwest part of the country than San Jose.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:25:34 +0000

Gary,
I know there’s lots of pressure to get blogs out quickly. There is already more than one on boardingarea.com regarding the Delta expansion/American retreat in Austin, but please have someone give your posts the once-over for typos.
I’m don’t know a verb from an adverb, so I am not a some frustrated English professor. Just a quick spellcheck should catch most of these.

“ Meanwhile, Southwest currently service (SERVICES) Midland – Austin with a six-times weekly jet, as well as robus (ROBUST) Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix service on Southwest, American and United.”

“With 50 peak day departures from Austin they’ll suddenly rival American is (IN) frequencies”

By: FLLFLYER

FLLFLYER — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:06:27 +0000

I hear they all already lining up for the new route to McAllen.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:56:40 +0000

So which cities comprise the 8 hubs you mention for American? They don’t have a west coast hub with the way they’ve abandoned International flights from the no man’s land in LAX, so that leaves PHX, DFW, ORD, MIA, PHL, and CLT. That’s 6 plus the debatable LAX. What am I missing?