Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...
Tonight the thrill is greater. Earlier in the day, a rocket ship dropped a cluster of airbags into the flood delta of a valley called Ares, and all the Main Street parades and the hot dog cookouts and three-legged races stopped cold. Five hours later, televised pictures emerged depicting a rust-colored desert with rust-colored rocks and a distant hill against a gray-brown sky. The scenery was boring, the excitement overwhelming. People on TV spoke of how great and adventurous America is, how like a Pathfinder--a nation of explorers and pioneers. But the feeling...
...those discounters who fly fearlessly into business markets risk heavy counterattacks. Giants like American, United and Delta are becoming increasingly aggressive in defending their hubs, even though their planes are running at more than 70% of capacity. The idea is fundamental and ruthless: don't let a competitor get a toehold in your most profitable turf...
...ValuJet has a new competitive problem too. When ValuJet launched its low-cost service in Atlanta, incumbent Delta didn't pay much attention. But Delta's service level crumbled as it tried to cut costs, and ValuJet proceeded to inhale market share...
...Delta won't make that mistake again. This time it is consistently matching ValuJet's fares out of Atlanta. Delta now has a low-cost airline, Delta Express, to fight ValuJet on its own rock-bottom terms. This is a lesson that the other major airlines have learned in battling upstart competitors, to their considerable profit. Alas, for travelers, the major airlines' profit is the flying public's loss...