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United needs/wants a SE hub to push into LATAM and hit American. They do 7% market share at FLL and Spirit does 32%. Total almost 40%. JetBlue does 20% for which they already have started codesharing with and just today released the ability to book on each others website via miles etc.
Something to think about.
UA isn’t interested in getting big in FLL, sure they’d welcome more business there, but they are more interested in MIA. According to the VP of network planning last year, he apparently said it was better to buy our way into MIA, than grow in FLL. I’m paraphrasing of course, but that was the gist…