Originally Posted by eponymous_coward

AA's network isn't particularly usable where I live (SEA), unless I fly a lot of AS (which I do anyway), or love connecting at ORD/DFW.



You speak as if you've never taken the T3->T4 shuttle, or flown out of T3.

I have (as an AS elite and VX passenger). T3 is a dump (VX's side is slightly nicer, but still, T3 is a dump). Go ask some AS folks if they'd like to go back from T6. Cooling your heels for 30+ minutes for shuttles for your connection (or walking outside and reclearing TSA) is a bad passenger experience. There's no doubt in my mind that once the AA-US merger is done in 2015-2016 or so, they'll be trying as hard as they can to consolidate operations under one roof. So I place no value on a T3 presence for AA, unless they tear the sucker down and figure out a way to connect T4, Bradley and T3. There's plans for this, kind of, but they are hideously expensive.

Also- you seriously think DL or B6 wouldn't find those assets useful? I'm sure B6 would love to dump LGB for LAX and is plenty popular with "hipsters", as you put it, and DL is in just as good a position to pressure UA (if not better).

Oh, and neither of them will be hip-deep in the middle of a merger that your .sig seems to be ridiculing...