Originally Posted by
khergan
Maybe this is my ignorance or misunderstanding of the ORD gate distribution, but this seems to me like something that will accelerate. It seems like that if more usage = more gates, then losing gates will create less usage, which means AA will lose more gates, which will result in less usage, etc.
Could this become a snowball effect? Maybe I'm just misreading their methodology.
This is not how it works. For example, let's say AA has 30 gates and 25 flights. AA loses 5 gates because the gate:flight ratio required is 1:1. Now AA has 25 gates and 25 flights, no further reductions occur.
So no, a snowball effect is not likely here.