Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
This is not a surprise. American has pulled back a lot of flying in ORD and United used the opportunity to add flying. We've also upgauged a bunch of RJs to mainline and replaced A-319s with A-321NEOs. Doing this adds 60+ seats to sell for each departure and as Kirby said, our Basic Economy product is growing rapidly (15% per year) and will keep growing, especially out of ORD.
AA has not pulled any flying from ORD. Are you talking about years ago? Sure, but not recently and especially not since the last gate allocation and as a matter of fact has increased flying. Chicago and United are corrupt. Expect some jail time for your ORD middle managers who engaged in this dirty deal. This allocation will never happen; courts will stop it.