Cranky on the Web: Holiday Travel and What’s Wrong with Delta



Bay Area airports prep for busy holiday travel as uncertainties loomMercury News
It’s time for holiday travel, and that means a blur of requests to discuss travel tips… but not this one. This was a more substantive story about how Oakland and San Jose are suffering while SFO continues to strengthen. Why? Southwest has shrunk and Spirit is gone, most notably, but it’s more than that.


Shortly after we did our three-part series on what was wrong with American, we got a note from a listener asking us to look at other airlines, even though that may not have problems of the same magnitude. That was a good idea. This week, we take on Delta. What’s wrong with Delta? Well, have a listen.

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One response to “Cranky on the Web: Holiday Travel and What’s Wrong with Delta”

  1. Bill from DC Avatar
    Bill from DC

    OAK is getting pummeled. Down 1.5 million passengers (13.5%) year over year is wretched without having a global, economic or natural disaster to blame.

    Brett mentioned NK accounted for a loss of 1,000 seats per day, 100 seats from DL (1/3 of their flights) and that Southwest had reductions but no specific figures.

    The big story is the WN reduction because (a) they command a whopping 82% market share as of April 2024 (i.e., before these decreases) and (b) it’s not like WN to reduce service at airports they dominate. I wonder how deep the reductions have been and which markets have been reduced or entirely lost.

    Tough times for the recently renamed sponsor of our favorite weekly aviation updates.

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