St.Louis looking to lure Delta Airlines to Lambert Airport--video and article

[General Lee]

St. Louis looking to lure Delta airlines to Lambert airport | KMOV.com | St. Louis news, Missouri news & breaking news | KMOV.com | News for St. Louis, Missouri



You just never know.......interesting?



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[johnsonrod]

And what state is St. Louis in? MISERY.... Sorry, that place, including TWA's/AA's old terminal, SUCKS......................

 

[General Lee]

Maybe DL will merge with Alaska Air and move the ANC operation to STL?


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[Scope out RJ's]

Boy wouldn't that be a smack in the face to AA.
Kind of reminds you of DL's hub failure in DFW.

 

[General Lee]

Looks like it may not happen anyway......

from USA today:
A St. Louis hub for Delta?

By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY

That's what St. Louis TV station KMOV reported earlier today, but Delta was quick to downplay that report to Today in the Sky. The St. Louis TV station had reported "Delta would like to bring a hub to St. Louis with up to 80 flights a day."

But that's not the case, according to Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter. "We don't see any sort of large immediate expansion like this report suggests" for St. Louis, he told me this afternoon.

While Banstetter acknowledged Delta does see some growth opportunities in St. Louis, he said any expansion there by the nation's largest carrier would come incrementally and would target origin-and-destination traffic -- not connecting traffic.

Banstetter noted that Delta already has added some new capacity in St. Louis. Examples of that include a new route to New York LaGuardia and larger planes on Delta's existing flights to its Salt Lake City hub.

Today's KMOV report comes about a little less than a year after American Airlines essentially de-hubbed its St. Louis operation. A move by any of the so-called "legacy carriers" to establish a new hub at St. Louis would probably catch most industry observers by surprise.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: With AA's cuts, St. Louis will fall from the ranks of hub cities (Sept. 18, 2009)

Despite the airport's healthy capacity and desirable geographic location, most industry experts believe the city lacks the population and corporate base to support a large connecting hub.

KMOV notes in its report that Memphis is able to support a hub, even though that metro area has about half the population of St. Louis.

KMOV also points out the St. Louis airport's landing fees are much higher than those at Memphis, though the station acknowledges that "cargo flights help to offset the costs in Memphis, [which is] the home of Federal Express.



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[scoreboardII]

Bring it.

 

[Broke in CVG]

Not going to happen. It's a Southwest hub. Delta is just teasing the city to get better gates and reduced landing fees AND THEN "we'll talk".

 

[aa73]

Boy wouldn't that be a smack in the face to AA.

Not quite... AA couldn't care less, they have pretty much abandoned STL.

 

[stlflyguy]

Not going to happen. It's a Southwest hub. Delta is just teasing the city to get better gates and reduced landing fees AND THEN "we'll talk".

Probably some truth in that...but it might be to actually get MEM to negotiate by threatening to divert traffic through STL.

 

[FLYLOW22]

jetBlue better hurry up and lock STL in.