Originally Posted by
bmvaughn
I imagine stronger O&D to CDG in SFO than IAH. ORD-MTY.. there's already IAH-MTY. Same is true of SAL.
So not sure what you mean by spite.
Note that IAH has no additional routes.
Originally Posted by
nova08
Haha, basically. It is good to see SFO-TPE. Though I thought they weren't going to make any immediate additions to keep some slack in the 772 fleet. I guess the 787 will be onsite by then. I don't think moving CDG to SFO is a bad move.
SFO-TPE is going to be really saturated with BR joining Star Alliance (IIRC, they have 2x daily).
As for the slack, these long-haul routes start in Spring 2013. By then they'll have the 787s in the system.