Originally Posted by
formeraa
Honestly, small airports can be relatively expensive to staff. There may be 3 flights spread out over the whole day. Think about having agents there at 4:30am to check-in the first flight of the morning and agents/ground crew there until 11pm to receive the last flight of the evening..
So, consolidating operations where CO, US, and UA each have, say, 3 flights a day might yield CONSIDERABLE savings.
isnt that the point of the announced cooperation? consolidate operations where it makes sense and creates cost savings. eg. if CO were to move to UA's terminal in SFO, why would should CO rebuild the PC?
now, i dont want to see any clubs disappear, but that's the point of this cooperation.
its not going to simply be about codeshares anymore. obviously it wont work everwhere. and doesnt need to work everywhere.
PHX will stay the same. they're together already. CO picks up a club, and there's not really a huge need for US connections. who's going to fly from a CO or UA hub, just to connect to a US flight. PHX isnt an intl gateway.
IAH can stay the same. the terminal train is super easy to use, however, it'd benefit UA'ers to move to B,C or E so they can get clubs.
CO is getting screwed at ORD, so they better move, unless NW is moving, and we get to the keep the club.
we could do this for every city, but as stated by
formeraa, the *A partners, especially the ailing US based ones, should really try to cooperate as much as possible.