Delta Air Lines to emulate Alaska Air‘s success story

Alaska Air Group has been a success story in the U.S. airline industry. The airline has proved beyond doubt that it has come of age and is here to be a long term player. The previous decade had been simply woeful for the airline. The Alaska Air Group finally came out with flying colors after putting up a valiant struggle against heavy odds, particularly overcoming financial turmoil.

This success story has prompted a leading U.S. carrier to follow into the footsteps of Alaska Air. A battle royale is all set to pit Alaska Air against Delta Air Lines, and force it to protect its home turf and save the mantle of being the highly regarded and steadiest performers.

Delta Air Lines has set its eyes on Alaska Airlines’ home turf Seattle and is bracing to give some really hard times to the airline here. Delta Air Lines challenge to Alaska Airlines will make travelers flying out of Seattle happier with airline tickets at competitive rates coming their way now. Delta Air Lines has prepared an elaborate plan to make a major dent in Seattle and push Alaska Airlines to forge even deeper business relations with American Airlines.

The battle with Delta Air Lines will be the real test of a smaller network carrier. This will also prove Alaska Airlines’ mettle in competing directly with airline biggies and consolidating its market further.

For quite some time now, Delta Air Lines has been trying to increase its presence at Seattle-Tacoma Airport further as a gateway to Asia. Delta Air Lines is presently conducting flights to 6 international destinations from Seattle. The airline is planning to start flights to London Heathrow by March end this year. The airline is also scheduled to begin operations to Hong Kong and Seoul in June 2014.