Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Without occupants, gates get reassigned. Vacant gates are an opportunity and there will soon be a lot more of them.
Not that simple. If those regional gates are occupied by AA or UAL regionals, don’t think for a minute the ORD airport authority will hand them over to Spirit, against the wishes of AA and UAL
Look at DFW, the gates used to be Airways. Airways merges with AA and a week later, AA is stacking regionals at those gates. DFW airport knows where their “bread is buttered,” and so does ORD