Originally Posted by
Lanceair
You should tell this to Scott Kirby, he seems to believe JFK is one of the most important pieces to the puzzle. (see many public statements around the time he left AA for UAL)
DAL and AA are in all three NYC airports, UAL is the only outlier, JS really effed that up, now there is really only one option to get back into JFK.
It's not a big deal. The bigger deal is that United has no major Hub east of Houston, south east of Cleveland or south of DC.