Dan Webb

Earlier this week I forgot to mention a very important part of Delta’s conference call from the question and answer session with analysts:

Kevin Crissey – UBS

…According to the stock market and on our numbers AirTran’s in significant trouble; can you talk about your approach to AirTran markets and capacity cuts as it relates to those markets?

Glen Hauenstein [Executive Vice President of Network and Revenue Management]

There are no capacity cuts in AirTran markets, as a matter of fact, despite the fact that we are down in general capacity by about 13% to 14% in the fall domestically, we are actually up in AirTran competitive markets into and out of Atlanta. Some of the point to point flying we have taken reductions in. But into and out of Atlanta of course Atlanta being our core strength market we are continuing to leave that capacity in.

(Source)

Hmmm…maybe PlaneBuzz was right and the “Airways curse” will come true yet again.