Originally Posted by
Freds Ex
Gates can be re-assigned or swapped, no? Given the new partnership with B6, UA having gates next to B6 isn't a bad thing.
The 2 runway thing is a good point, but EWR is a 2 runway airport most of the time and UA rarely uses the north runways in LAX ever since they figured out that assigning arrival and departure runways based on where you park to decongest the taxiways might actually be a good idea.
The real issue seems to be that FLL is a low-yield city like MCO. Good chance WN makes some moves in FLL before UA does, but if I was planning to build a hub in FLL, I definitely would be telling my competitors that I had no interest in building a hub in FLL.
Some good points made, but the low yield thing didn’t sound like a concern. He said that the NK network out of there was pretty impressive so it sounded like they could make it work?
LAX utilizes all the runways though even if we just use the south side. EWR can utilize 29, but only in windy conditions. The option is still there though… or maybe EWR is the reason they don’t want to open a hub/base in a place that only has 2 runways?
