AND they're shrinking the schedule. Something doesn't jive.

United Trims Winter Flying Months Before Snowflakes Fall - Bloomberg

Long before the first snowflakes fall, United Airlines is planning cuts to its winter schedule. While other U.S. carriers are bolstering their operations, United’s reductions will pare first-quarter 2015 seating capacity by 6.3 percent, Daniel McKenzie, a Buckingham Research Group analyst, said in a report today. The pullback is steepest on domestic U.S. routes and flights to Tokyo, according to McKenzie’s analysis of published airline schedules.