[jdkeet]

I have flown many times with Delta but as Jim says, they force so many traffic into the Atlana airspace that they just can't help to drop some flights. Cortney, my beginning and end point are Phoenix and Chattanooga. With NorthWest (and they were not to small too) the lay over-transfer point was Memphis. I never missed a flight or never experienced a delay to the extent that I missed the connection flight while flying with them. However with Delta that took them out, I can only fly over Atlanta and this is where the problem is. If Delta wants to fly from Phoenix to Chattanooga and back, why over Atlanta only, if they still have the Memphis hub? I can fly from Phoenix to Memphis and then book anohter fly from Memphis to Chattanooga but Delta does not allow me to book a direct flight from Phoenix to Chattanooga or the other way around via Memphis. I can only do it via Atlanta. Therefore, the client is loosing out. The point I am making is that Delta is contributing a lot to the ATC problem in Atlanta because they do have and force so many more flights through Atlanta instead of continuing using their "other options".