Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
AA lost because they didn't fly to their full capacity while United did. The formula is not just how many gates you have but how often you utilize them. United gained gates because it just flew far more flights per gate. This is all publicly available data.
One of the many reasons why ORD is such a miserable experience. Airlines are forced to stack flights tightly to “demonstrate” a need for additional gates. So we end up having to wait for gates in the pad time after time, while airlines “demonstrate need” for gates