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Despite all of the negative posts against the slot swap, the poll shows that the majority of members seem to agree w/ US mgmt for doing it.
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Perhaps despite the desire to see US larger in NYC, there is the reality that US can't continue to lose money flying dozens of short flights that carry very few people. OTOH, they do have a huge opportunity to grow DCA further where US appears to use its slots very efficiently.... and for both DL and US, they both have the potential to use scarce national resources more efficiently.
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NYC esp. is a city where there has to be alot of mass in order to make the market work... CO built its mass in the late 90s and 2000s.... DL began an aggressive effort to build mass in the mid 2000s forward and it has resulted in both carriers' ability to shift market share to themselves.
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DCA is a similar story for US.... as the industry consolidates down to a handful of carriers w/ nationwide scope, it is now very possible for a single carrier to have the same types of share levels in large coastal markets that they once could only have in their hubs. Given that every carrier has higher share percentages than they once had in all types of markets, the proportion of market share in the coastal markets is not that much different from what exists in other non-hub markets.
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markets like NYC and WAS will still have plenty of competition while allowing carriers like CO, DL, and US to have the same types of mass at the slot controlled airports that the low fare carriers have at other airports in the region, including what WN has at BWI
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Perhaps despite the desire to see US larger in NYC, there is the reality that US can't continue to lose money flying dozens of short flights that carry very few people. OTOH, they do have a huge opportunity to grow DCA further where US appears to use its slots very efficiently.... and for both DL and US, they both have the potential to use scarce national resources more efficiently.
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NYC esp. is a city where there has to be alot of mass in order to make the market work... CO built its mass in the late 90s and 2000s.... DL began an aggressive effort to build mass in the mid 2000s forward and it has resulted in both carriers' ability to shift market share to themselves.
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DCA is a similar story for US.... as the industry consolidates down to a handful of carriers w/ nationwide scope, it is now very possible for a single carrier to have the same types of share levels in large coastal markets that they once could only have in their hubs. Given that every carrier has higher share percentages than they once had in all types of markets, the proportion of market share in the coastal markets is not that much different from what exists in other non-hub markets.
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markets like NYC and WAS will still have plenty of competition while allowing carriers like CO, DL, and US to have the same types of mass at the slot controlled airports that the low fare carriers have at other airports in the region, including what WN has at BWI
