...This is called "We Love To Shoot Ourselves in the Foot, and It Shows!" Go JetBlue! Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- Jim Fuoco <jfuoco@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote: > Press Release Source: Delta Air Lines, Inc. > > Delta to Offer Customers More Seats Than Any Other > Airline Between New > York's JFK Airport and Florida > > ATLANTA, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air > Lines (NYSE: DAL - > News), responding to strong customer demand between > New York and Florida, > will offer customers more seats than any other > carrier between New York's > John F. Kennedy International Airport and Florida > this winter. > Delta will add the seats by reallocating 183-seat > Boeing 757 aircraft to > Florida markets currently being served by 119-seat > Boeing 737-200s. This > increases Delta's capacity to serve customers > between New York's JFK > Airport and Florida by more than 50 percent. > > Delta already offers customers more flights between > New York and Florida > than any other airline, and now with the > introduction of 757 flights, > Delta will offer more seats than any other carrier. > This winter, Delta, > Delta Express and the Delta Connection carriers will > offer 266 flights and > 43,288 seats weekly to Florida from New York's > LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy > International, Newark and Islip airports. > > "Strong customer demand between New York and Florida > has allowed us to > reallocate existing capacity to this important > market and give our > customers even more choices for travel between > Florida and our JFK gateway > -- where we offer nonstop service to more > transatlantic destinations than > any other carrier," said Subodh Karnik, Delta's > senior vice president - > Network and Revenue Management. > > Delta's winter schedule changes between New > York and Florida: > > Between 737-200 Flights Today > 757 Flights Winter > 2003 > JFK - Ft. Lauderdale 6 flights daily > 6 flights daily > JFK - Orlando 4 flights daily > 5 flights daily > JFK - Tampa 3 flights daily > 3 flights daily > JFK - West Palm Beach 2 flights daily > 2 flights daily > > > Delta Air Lines, the world's second largest carrier > in terms of passengers > carried and the U.S. airline with the most > transatlantic destinations, > offers 5,767 flights each day to 425 destinations in > 76 countries on > Delta, Delta Express, Delta Shuttle, Delta > Connection and Delta's > worldwide partners. Delta is a founding member of > SkyTeam, a global > airline alliance that provides customers with > extensive worldwide > destinations, flights and services. For more > information, please go to > delta.com. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com