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Dec 17, 2011 | Posted by: roboblogger

Delta Adding LaGuardia Flights in Bid to Dominate NYC Travel

Full story: BusinessWeek

Delta Air Lines Inc. will add more than 100 flights and 29 destinations at New York's LaGuardia by mid-2012 as it builds the airport into a domestic hub and seeks to dominate the nation's busiest aviation market.

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JetBlast

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If DL is adding 100 flights out of LGA, who (besides DCA) is losing flights?

Replaceing USAir turbo-props on short-haul routes with DL regional jets will create additional congestion delays due to airspace constraints. I thought airines would have learned by now that small, turbo-jets on short-haul routes in congested airspace is a bad combination. This might come back and bite them when their on-time performance tanks.

UA/CO's single airport hub at EWR has a lot more advantages than DL's 2-airport hub offering roughly the same number of total flights. Good marketing spin for DL and it might look good on paper but in reality I see some logistical disadvantages.

I see AA getting hit the hardest with DL's expansion.
OldCapt

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They are there because LGA has the highest yield of any NY airport. There's lots of money to be made regardless of their other hub. Also, I think you are rit about AA being the loser. CO/UA also.
OldCapt

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Second line should read RIGHT NOT rit!

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