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Originally Posted by skyscraperpage17
I consider myself an open-mind person and I'm always willing to hear all sides of an issue. What I don't understand with this particular subject are the overly negative reactions to what I think is a reasonable opinion.
I live in a part of the Atlanta Metro area that is especially dependent on Delta's success, so my comments aren't an indictment against them. Just as well, my comments should not be taken as an indictment on the city of Atlanta. The entire metro area depends on the success of the city and the last thing I want to see happen is for it to fail.
That being said, I guess what I'm getting at is all I've heard in response to my criticism that Delta is responsible for exacerbating the situation are people trying to justify why they're doing it. What I don't get it (as no one has explained) is how does any justification alleviate their responsibility in exacerbating the situation?
BTW, I can't speak on the exact number of Delta's flight distribution today in comparison to 20 years ago, but what I do know is that in that same span of time, Delta has significantly consolidated their flight operations by completely shuttering or significantly shrinking their other major hubs across the country (much more so than the other big airlines). These flights that once were going to now shrunken or shuttered hubs had to go somewhere (ATL).
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How did they exacerbate a situation if they've been operating the same, normal operation they've run for 20+ years? Thats what I don't understand.
And your last paragraph is just completely untrue. 20 years ago Delta had a major hub at ATL, much smaller hubs at Cincinnati (CVG), Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) Salt Lake City (SLC) and a very small international hub at New York City (JFK). Today it has ATL, major hubs at Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP), Detroit (DTW), and significant hubs at Salt Lake City (SLC), Los Angeles (LAX), Seattle (SEA) and NYC (JFK
AND LGA).
As I said earlier the level of ops at ATL is unchanged over the past 20 years. All of the growth has come from larger airplanes, not more flights.
I get your point. I promise I do. I just don't think is grounded in fact.
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