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发帖数: 4431 | 1 The market share fight between Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines is
notching up a bit, as the two carriers have started removing code shares
from flights where the two directly compete.
Starting March 22, for instance, Alaska is removing its codes on four Delta
routes out of Salt Lake City, to Portland, Boise, Los Angeles and San Diego,
said Alaska spokeswoman Bobbie Egan.
Without code shares, passengers can't book a flight directly on the other
airline.
The deletions, Egan said, are being done by agreement between the two
airlines, although she couldn’t describe the specifics on deadline.
This shedding of code shares is against the backdrop of Atlanta-based Delta
competing more directly against Alaska Airlines on the West Coast and in
Alaska, after many years of primarily collaborating. Now the two are both
competing and collaborating, depending on the routes.
Delta has made Seattle its primary West Coast hub to Asia, and so it needs
Alaska’s West Coast feed to keep those planes full.
But at the same time, Delta has its own strategies for increasing its own
domestic presence on the West coast.
Last October, in a Puget Sound Business Journal interview, Delta Vice
President for Seattle Mike Medeiros called Delta and Alaska “fierce
competitors.”
“We’re very committed to Seattle,” he said at the time. “And what that
means is we’ll be looking for opportunities on the West Coast — including
California — for Delta airplanes.”
But that said, Seattle-based Alaska Airlines is still by far the dominant
carrier out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
In March, Alaska is averaging 242 daily departures from Seattle and Delta 36
. That's a year-over-year increase of six flights for Alaska and nine for
Delta, according to figures provided by Perry Cooper, spokesman for Sea-Tac.
So both are growing in Seattle, but Delta at a faster rate, but from a
smaller base.
Alaska’s departures are 90 percent domestic, he said, while Delta’s are 86
percent domestic. |
