Deal closed earlier today. To recap, Delta Air Lines gets 132 sets of slots at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, US Airways gets 42 sets of slots at Washington DC’s Reagan National Airport plus some cash and some sort of access to Brazil in 2015 that nobody really understands.
So what comes next? Significant changes to both Delta and US Airway’s route maps, that’s what. By about September at the latest, both carriers will have new new baselines for service in the eastern U.S. that will look a lot different than what we see today. Look for a more detailed analysis tomorrow.
