Shiz, I posted about that over a week ago. It is one thing I can see DAL doing. Buying the DFW and MIA hubs and getting everything they can from NYC. I figured if we got DFW, they could shut down CVG, MSP, and SLC. It would give them two heartland hubs the four corner posts, and MIA. (MIA is really not needed, but the traffic to SA would be awesome)

MSP could survive this, but even as a profitable hub, it makes more sense to have two and offer mainline service to almost every city. There could be significant job cuts, but after looking at how I would envision the route networks with DFW most of the cities could be served by mainline, and the 70/76 seat jets we have. We would not need eagle and most of the DCI carriers for lift.

If I was RA, I would be watching AMR, wanting DFW, and MIA and hoping that B6 and LCC got the parts of NYC that were left. I would allow DAL to get the B6 terminal there with no ATI issues. To me the slot swap was always about de-conflicting LCC, AMR and B6 in NYC.