I really don't know what to make of this announcement. UA to buy EI? EI to join *A? UA to stop paying for expensive airplanes and let an operator with lower costs do the work?
Interesting that LAX is high on the list for "revival". I had understood that it was just a winter timetable issue brought about by high fuel costs and the fact that EI should be rotating the fleet out one by one for a refit. Seems like they didn't expect to restart the service.