Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
this didn’t age well did El Peso? AA appears to be even less of a factor in ORD now. This will continue, by the end of the decade AA will be a shell in ORD.
United is literally 26% bigger in ORD than AA. How you call that barely a factor when comparing the two is just some mental gymnastics that I can’t follow.
Next. Network planning builds a dream schedule they’d like to fly. Flights ops comes back and says here’s what we can fly without stretching the operations too thin. They have explicit direction from the top to focus on reliability. So what you’re seeing is network plannings’ dream schedule being trimmed. Mostly of course is due to pilot shortage at Eagle.
What you’re not seeing of course is that many former Eagle cities are now seeing bigger mainline planes. Particularly in CLT.
Btw did you miss that UAL cut out 36 markets from EWR all together just a few months ago? Want to guess what the driver for that decision was?