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Originally Posted by SterickFan
Shocker. With the blatant marketing to low cost airlines, and apparently with some success, Delta must know their profit margin is...has been...shrinking at Memphis. With the arrival of Southern Airways, if you don't mind the non-jet kind of travel, the market is beginning to successfully make Memphis Int'l a lower market airport. It will still take some time, but even for an avid Delta frequent flyer through the years, good riddance. Memphis has never been the right size for a hub, so let the lower fares begin. With that will come the loss of some non stop destinations. Lower fares are becoming more attractive to me though.
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Yep, eventually the only place you'll be going from Memphis on a Delta jet is ATL, MSP, DTW, SLC, CVG, and LGA/JFK. Its going to happen sooner or later, the only problem with that is the cutting of Delta flights to certain destinations (or the amount of flights to various locations being cut) and their replacement by another carrier. I personally don't have a problem with connecting flights, especially if I'm racking up flyer miles in the process, but I'm still in my 20's and a lot of people don't want to go through that hassle, but those days for MEM are probably over.
I'm curious to see the volume of flights that Southwest will add. I'm also curious to see whether or not Frontier will add additional routes from MEM (I'm probably heading to Seattle in March, so I'll be looking forward to what their fares will be).
I don't have a problem with the small planes that Southern Airways Express flies, I haven't flown them yet, but I'd like to see them expand their services, although I don't see them flying anything larger than their 9 seat Cessnas and King Airs to avoid TSA and certain FAA regulations.