Originally Posted by
El Peso
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.
26% is a significant amount considering where AA historically used to be in ORD market. Don’t take it personal….. AA just shifted their focus smartly to more profitable hubs (DFW and CLT).
Originally Posted by
El Peso
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.
Agree with this point, this is happening across the board at the big 3 though….
Originally Posted by
El Peso
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?
Yes, driver behind that decision was to free up space for summer Europe flying and upgauging regional equipment to mainline equipment and shifting regional connections through IAD. If there is a cut out of EWR, there is a addition to replace that cut in that hub.