Delta has added a bit more detail to the capacity cuts coming next year: an 8-10% domestic cut, and 3-5% international cut, leaving the airline with 20% less capacity than in 2007. That is a huge, huge change. Granted, some of that change will come from using smaller aircraft, rather than cutting [...]

A quick note about what airlines are doing if you have a flight scheduled to Mumbai:
US carriers have resumed flights to Mumbai, but all are offering to re-accomodate if you have a flight in the next week or so.
Continental:  If you have travel between now and December 2nd, you can change the flight to depart [...]

Despite the recent announcements for new international routes, Delta is saying that 2009 is going to see a further decrease in passenger demand. They made a regulatory filing on Friday that suggests they will cut international and domestic capacity next year in expectation that customers will further curtail flying. Assuming they can get [...]

Ugh…Sometimes when things seem too good to be true:
That Delta promo I mentioned last week where you earned a 150% bonus for partner activity is now showing up as not available.  (Flyertalk has a thread here).  The long and short is that depending on whom you speak to at Delta, either there is a technical [...]

A couple of weeks ago Delta introduced a program called “Choice Seats” that allowed passengers to purchase exit rows and a handful of other seats for up to $25 (this matched a similar program from Northwest). It turns out that elite members hated that their good seats were either gone or now had to [...]

Delta has an amazing promo right now if you have a bunch of Starwood points sitting around:  Earn 10,000 miles from Delta partners and they’ll give you a 150% bonus.  What does that actually mean?  Transfer 20,000 Starwood points into Delta miles and you’ll get 25,000 miles (with the normall 5,000 mile bonus).  Then with [...]

(updated from an earlier incomplete post…)
Delta will launch flights to a host of cities in Africa and Asia next year, as they cherry-pick opportunities for cities that will survive during an economic slowdown.  Incredibly, they’ll offer one-stop service from Atlanta  (through Cape Verde) to Luanda, Angola; Malabo, Equitorial Guinea; and Abuja, Nigeria.  Seriously.  I know [...]

A quick note about last week’s announcement from Delta that it will add nonstops from Pittsburgh and Raleigh to Paris:
Northwest has just announced that it is suspending flights from Detroit to Paris (as well as Seattle – Heathrow and Detroit – Osaka) beginning in January.  Perhaps someone can explain how Detroit to Paris doesn’t work [...]

As part of its integration with Northwest, Delta is changing some of its fees — you’ll be happy to know they are actually eliminating some:
- No more curbside check-in fees ($3 in your pocket)
- No more fuel surcharges on award tickets (up to $100 in your pocket)
- Reducing telephone booking fee to $20 from $25 [...]

I thought I’d pass along an interesting article about what’s happening with the US Airways and Delta Shuttles (as you might have guessed, what’s happening isn’t good).  The short version is that Wall Street misery + Acela = mess.  During the first half of the year, some months saw load factors in the 36% range [...]