Delta plans to triple gates at SEA, article

[JetMonkey]

All DAL has to do is buy Alaska and "poof", feed and gate space problem solved..

 

[General Lee]

Where are these gates comming from .. Are more going to be built? Cause I think SEA is kinda at saturation..

Looking at the terminal map, it looks like A1 through A14, the whole South Satelite S1-S16, and B3, B5, B7, and B9? That might be a start.


If you have 10 Widebody nonstops per day with about 2500 seats total (250 per plane), then you need a lot of feed to fill those seats, along with local traffic. Throw in double HNL and now Maui, plus ANC service, and that means lots of connections.




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[General Lee]

All DAL has to do is buy Alaska and "poof", feed and gate space problem solved..

I doubt it. Once you cover the same routes, it's tougher to merge, primarily because the Govt wants competition on city pairs. I'm sure SWA or Spirit would want that, so they could benefit on scraps that would have to be given up to get regulatilory approval. But, AA or UA might be interested, or even the Corndogs, and since there is less overlap, it probably has a better chance.


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[Old School 737]

Looking at the terminal map, it looks like A1 through A14, the whole South Satelite S1-S16, and B3, B5, B7, and B9? That might be a start.


If you have 10 Widebody nonstops per day with about 2500 seats total (250 per plane), then you need a lot of feed to fill those seats, along with local traffic. Throw in double HNL and now Maui, plus ANC service, and that means lots of connections.




Bye Bye---General Lee

So... where are all the current airlines that use those gates gonnna go ?

 

[General Lee]

So... where are all the current airlines that use those gates gonnna go ?

Good question, but some very smart people in ATL are working on that. I would think some of the INTL flights from other airlines (like Emirates, Korean, Ice Air) would still use the S gates for the customs there. But, it seems the SEA airport authority is not fighting this DL growth plan.



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[Mea25000]

No new gates in SEA until '20. New AS #s as of last Thursday growing SEA by 20% in 2015. I hope this thing keeps going this is great news..lots of growth. If you can believe our management they say Delta's push in SEA is the best thing that could have happened. It has flushed out Super low cost airlines and according to them Delta adds capacity at reasonable fares which allows us to grow and thrive. Last numbers they were pushing was an almost 15% cost savings over Delta... Even more if all the metal is RJ's which is about 90% of it so far.
AS Q3 profit margin 21.8%
Delta Q3 profit margin 14.6%

 

[jonjuan]

Looks like 20 gates for delta by 2017 which is a 90% increase over the current 11 gates. That's pretty significant growth in 2 1/2 years.

 

[Turtle21]

Delta pays its employees too much and has profit sharing. They will collapse under the huge cost disadvantage. SEA gates will be available for dirt cheap in no time.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

SEA isn't about the domestic market for DAL.

 

[General Lee]

SEA isn't about the domestic market for DAL.

I'd say 170 daily flights by 2017 may discount that theory.


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