House_X
House X by Peter Eisenman
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- Dec 18, 2001
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General,General Lee said:FLB717,
Ok, deal. You guys stay with cities like DAY and Moline, and we will concentrate on Aruba, San Jose Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, Rome, and other cites like that. Deal.........(But we can't give up on LGA, DCA, PHL, LAS, LAX, EWR(we would like to give up EWR), ORD, and a few others.....)
Bye Bye--General Lee
I'm trying to bust on Delta and I'm not trying to make this personal...but the reality is Delta has a very poor international presence when compared to other legacy carriers. I can't name one geographical area that Delta dominates in. Let's take a count...
Latin America:
American and Continental have this region already locked up...
Europe:
Too many carriers to name...I doubt Delta could expand any larger without response from Lufthannsa, BA, Virgin, Air France, KLM....not to mention all the US carriers.
Asia:
The most competitive market in the world. United and Northwest dominate Asia in terms of US carriers. They have a strong presence in Japan, Hong Kong, Mainland China and S.E. Asia. The slots (landing rights) are given out by individual governments. Cathay, ANA, JAL, KAL and Singapore continue to aggressively buy more airplanes and are expanding into US markets. Even now, United continues to have a strong Asia schedule and is adding flights to China despite it's financial difficulties.
I fly on Delta a lot...and I can tell you as a non-rever, the coach class service is no different from an LCC. I think Delta needs to find a way to reduce it's costs and battle the LCC's and it must find it fast. Shifting to International will not help...coach, business and first class on Delta is below standard when compared to international carriers. Unless you guys can reduce your ticket prices and hire F/A's from Hooters....the flying public will continue to buy tickets on carriers like Virgin if they want to go to Europe.