but tapping into Seattle will give Alaska a run for their money...
Alaska will be in trouble soon with VA penetrating its routes.
Of course ORD could be more of a disaster. I just don't think closing CLE as a conneting hub and consolidating connections through ORD / IAD will make that happen. One of ths points in merging is to reduce capacity. It is not like all of the flights currently operating through CLE with CO will be transferred to ORD. (Consider the old TW / STL hub. That has since disappeared under AA, although the thought at the time of the merger was that STL would be vital to AA to serve as some sort of seconday or overflow midwest hub.)Thanks for the comments Bear.
I have to disagree with you on your premise that O'Hare could not be more of a disaster
When do you think the merger would take place...if it were to happen?
THanks
Of course ORD could be more of a disaster. I just don't think closing CLE as a conneting hub and consolidating connections through ORD / IAD will make that happen. One of ths points in merging is to reduce capacity. It is not like all of the flights currently operating through CLE with CO will be transferred to ORD. (Consider the old TW / STL hub. That has since disappeared under AA, although the thought at the time of the merger was that STL would be vital to AA to serve as some sort of seconday or overflow midwest hub.)
No one can guess when (or if) a merger will happen.
I don't completely disagree with you, but at the risk of topic drift, are you suggesting that if TWA were still around it would have also gotten rid of the STL hub by now because of 9/11 and the bad economy?The ST. Louis hub has been devastated by AA is the myth most ex-TWA people want to believe nad if I was one of them I would. But 9/11 came and so did a bad economy. Those two things are the reason ST. Louis has been reduced consistently by AA, not some evil Crandalism.
I don't completely disagree with you, but at the risk of topic drift, are you suggesting that if TWA were still around it would have also gotten rid of the STL hub by now because of 9/11 and the bad economy?