New summer seasonal service to three markets: Boston will operate daily (June 10), Anchorage, Alaska

New summer seasonal service to three markets: cars for rent Boston will operate daily (June 10), Anchorage, Alaska will operate cars for rent three times weekly Friday-Sunday (June 21) and Bozeman, Mont. will operate Saturday only service (June 22)
DL says they are increasing seats by 12% from LAX; they have added more seats from LAX than any other carrier this summer. In contrast, AA s capacity is flat, UA is down about 5%, US and WN are each up about 2%.
Surprised BOS is seasonal, seems to me if they want to grow LA BOS is a market they should serve year round. As it is the times are far from ideal, redeye only and then a mid morning departure that has limited cars for rent connectivity to partner flights may have the seats chasing low fare leisure travelers. DL has tried this several times, both with Song 757s and as Delta mainline 757/738 over the years and cut it back in 2008 before Virgin America came to scene.
It is direct operating cost flying.... BOS transcons are driven cars for rent by low fare carriers. DL is not going to commit to the market until one of the other network carriers pulls out or the low fare situation changes.
AA is flat and UA is down... is that strictly cars for rent for the summer and isnt that good if its up as well as adding more seats to those cities.. though it does kind of surprise me they would add phx oak and bonzeman mt to lax given that in the phx market alone youve got us n wn doing the battle and wn does the lax oak runs.... in addt to ual i believe i do wonder josh if dl would end up making it yr around btwn lax n bos.... like they had before 9.11
Some of the flight additions are seasonal so the capacity changes are not necessarily the same after the summer. At the same time, DL is adding flights later in the year that are not reflected in those numbers and could add more. DL, as all carriers, could also reduce flights further out.
Two class RJs do have reasonably decent CASMs so can work well even when competing against low fare carriers... these are largely point to point domestic markets or int l connections so DL can compete.