Delta has lower Revenue

[redflyer65]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47680540/ns/business-us_business/

Things are heating up already. Stock down 12% in one day.

 

[Crash Pad]

Revenue up 6 percent rather than 7. Euro is down against the dollar. Keep in mind gas is also down 40ish cents. European bookings also in the mix. SWA and it's 40 flights to the ATL are not the issue.

 

[Freebrd]

can't wait for JennyLeigh's spin on this

 

[General Lee]

Revenue up 6 percent rather than 7. Euro is down against the dollar. Keep in mind gas is also down 40ish cents. European bookings also in the mix. SWA and it's 40 flights to the ATL are not the issue.

So true. Europe isn't doing as great, but lower gas will help overall, even with your own refinery! Thank Gawd SWA hasn't started Hawaii service yet, it might have cost Delta about $167 in extra losses....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Scoot 11]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47680540/ns/business-us_business/

Things are heating up already. Stock down 12% in one day.

AWESOME!! Maybe you can hurry down the local pub and raise a pint in celebration! With any real luck, we'll start the furlough machine in high gear, and you can REALLY throw down!
Some of you SW pilots are really classless!

 

[Freebrd]

AWESOME!! Some you Delta pilots are really classless!

ie JennyLeigh

Guess it's ok with you that she constantly trashes SWA huh

 

[CaptJax]

DL Collected Most Paxs' Fees in 2011

Airline Already Collecting the Most Passenger Fees Wants $1 Billion More of Them Annually


In 2011, no U.S. airline pulled in more revenues from fees than Delta. The airline collected an industry-leading $767 million in reservation cancellation and change fees, and another $863 million in baggage fees. Delta isn’t resting on its laurels, though. The carrier plans on charging passengers a whopping extra $1 billion in fees annually by 2014.

Delta isn’t known as the most fee-crazed airline. That title is probably split between Spirit Airlines in the U.S. and Ryanair in Europe—carriers that, infamously, charge for things such as carry-on bags and paying with a credit card not affiliated with the airline. Nonetheless, because Delta has a much bigger network of routes than Spirit, and because it charges a healthy number of fees, Delta collects the most total fee dollars of any U.S. airline.

In the third quarter of 2011, Delta took in $814 million in “ancillary fees,” which include charges for baggage, reservation changes, pet transportation, standby services, and anything else over and above the basic cost of an airline ticket. Delta’s ancillary fee revenues for that quarter surpassed the total generated by the next three airlines combined — American, U.S. Airways, and Southwest — with $300 million, $245 million, and $232 million, respectively.

Now, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Delta’s latest goal is to push the fee envelope further. Analysts say the Atlanta-based carrier, which merged with Minneapolis-based Northwest Airlines a few years ago, “plans to add $1 billion to its ancillary sales by 2014.” Delta hasn’t gone public with such an overt, off-putting money grab, though. Here instead is the airline’s best spin:

“What we really have a goal to do is to offer the customer exactly what they want,” said Glen Hauenstein, Delta’s executive vice president of network planning and revenue management. “So if they want a base fare with a seat and no checked baggage, we have a product for them. If they want free drinks, if they want food, if they want to sit in first class, we have a product for those folks, too.”

Of course, there’s no such thing as free drinks or food on board plans. Nor, for that matter, is there such a thing as “free” checked baggage. In one way or another—through fees or when factored into “bundled” flight prices—passengers pay up.

The line that Delta and other airlines are trying to walk is one in which fee revenues are increased at the same time that customers aren’t disgusted by the constant nickel-and-diming before and after boarding the plane.

One way Delta hopes to collect more in fees is by tempting customers with a free service. Passengers are allowed to shop at Amazon.com on Delta flights at no charge. Delta takes some portion of Amazon purchases made on board its plane, but the airline also hopes that once travelers get a taste of surfing the Web while flying, they’ll be more likely to pay up for non-restricted Wi-Fi on flights. Delta charges $12 for unlimited Internet on its planes during a 24-hour period, and monthly ($34.95) and annual passes ($399.95) are available as well.

 

[redflyer65]

AWESOME!! Maybe you can hurry down the local pub and raise a pint in celebration! With any real luck, we'll start the furlough machine in high gear, and you can REALLY throw down!
Some of you SW pilots are really classless!

Really Scoot? I just posted an article and your trying to 'call me out' for celebrating? A little too ready to hit the eject button? Might be time for your afternoon red pill and Wine Cooler.

Now, do you have any comment on the article instead of trying to defame the person who only cut and pasted it?

 

[Scoot 11]

Really Scoot? I just posted an article and your trying to 'call me out' for celebrating? A little too ready to hit the eject button? Might be time for your afternoon red pill and Wine Cooler.

Now, do you have any comment on the article instead of trying to defame the person who only cut and pasted it?

Maybe when you're done "high fiving" with all your SW buds at all the negativity, you'll realize that you're one stone's throw away in your "glass house," you call Southwest!

 

[redflyer65]

Now, do you have any comment on the article instead of trying to defame the person who only cut and pasted it?

The clear answer is NO. Thanks Scoot.