Originally Posted by
diver858
For at least some of us, it means more options. When AA implemented the cornerstone strategy, many lost some point-to-point service.
I would also like to believe that the expanded network will bring more award redemption opportunities - domestically and TATL. In the latter case, alternatives to connections in LHR on BA,, PHL instead of JFK. For Mexico, Central America and the Carribean, PHX becomes an alternative to DFW.
Fair enough. And that was the one thing I was looking forward to with CO arriving in *A - I looked at their Latin American routes, especially Mexico and Central America and drooled. Unfortunately the cost of having all those new interesting destinations available for awards was a complete gutting of the flying experience. Hopefully this merger will go better but history seems to show that when the two carriers have different ways of doing things, it's the most customer unfriendly method that survives.