Originally Posted by
CRJCapitan
United is headquartered in Chicago so kind of unreasonable to expect AA to have as much skin in the game in terms of winning market share, especially with high costs.
I don't think the battle for ORD has much to do with headquarters locations and costs are only half the equation. The difference between revenue and cost is what counts. ORD is expensive, but revenues more than make up for it as with most of UA hubs. Until Kirby and his network team arrived UA squandered their S-curve advantage in their hubs much to the benefit of the competition. Not the case any longer.