MEM to make more reductions.. again

Delta Air Lines Inc. is cutting its Memphis departures again by the first week of January, which means less overall non-stop service from MEM
DL will cut its Memphis departures from 111 to 94. That would be a 15.3 percent cut, with three destinations being discontinued and 10 others seeing reduced flight frequency.
Delta will discontinue service to Birmingham, Ala., and Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville, Fla., while reducing flights to Nashville, Jackson, Miss., Los Angeles, Little Rock, Kansas City, Raleigh-Durham, San Antonio, St. Louis, Tulsa and Knoxville.

It was a matter of time. CVG took huge hits to keep MEM for the NW bunch. Part of this fallout is from 50 seaters going bye bye. They had to go.

Don't forget those old Saab 340B's on A concourse..

Well, up until a few months ago, our T3 A Concourse was closed for a few years. They closed down Terminal 2 and moved non-DL airlines to Terminal 3, Concourse A (after extensive remodel). T3, concourse C (former Comair) has been closed at least 2 yrs and still sits vacant...

Yeah, when the merger had one airline controlling ATL, CVG, and MEM (all relatively close to each other) and MEM really isn't that big in the first place, cuts are bound to happen. I predict Memphis will end up like Milwaukee. Frontier (which bought Midwest) has basically pulled out of MKE as a hub, and Southwest/AirTran has taken over. Geographically, Delta has little benefit from MEM and if Southwest has any expansion there beyond their legacy AirTran route they could very quickly drive DL out. Yes, WN has BNA, but they're more of a point-to-point network than they are hub-and-spoke, so they could probably work around that a bit better.