Originally Posted by Probe

Grumble, you are parroting a UAL beancounter, and the excuses they use for not doing better.

But they run an EXTREMELY inefficiently orientated hub system. Running all those pax thru ATL means they fly those pax 20-40% more seat miles to connect them to their destination than we probably do. The vast majority of their pax going through ATL are connecting. A much larger percentage of our pax originate at one of our well positioned hubs. We simply fly them less miles to get them to their destination. I can't believe that isn't several times the savings as the difference in landing fees.