Originally Posted by
TonyBurr
IAH - PHL has definitely been reduced (thanks Jeff). I have had more then one itinerary changed due to these cuts. PHL is beuing very downsized for UA. In addition to IAH, Jeff has reduced ORD (mainly Express, and US has more flights), DEN, EWR. IAD continues to be a non entity, just a few express flights, generally late. LAX was dropped until Virgin America came in, now UA has an early morning flight.
Jeff does not like PHL
PHL is going out of the network. Good for those switching to the new AA here.
I don't have the premerger schedule but I don't think UA has slashed PHL.
LAX was cut when VX came in but in reality UA was barely holding onto it.
EWR was likely cut because US has 5-7 Dash8 flts/day. PHL-EWR was up to 7-10 flts/day for a ~25 minute flight.
IAD I believe is still at 5/day which was the schedule premerger
DEN is at ~ 2/day which is probably down 1 since the merger, currently the afternoon DEN-PHL flight is a bit early for west coast connections.
ORD has seen some capacity adjustments and US does fly a number of 321s. Though US' schedule on PHL-ORD is not great for business travel. The first 2 flts of the day depart PHL at 745am and 945am. UA has 6am, 730am, and 945am. Also the UA CR7s are an extremely tough upgrade on ORD-PHL, which shows there is still loyalty
SFO was actually raised to 4/day for a bit when VX came in but is now back to 3/day. Premerger it was a mix of 319/320s but now there are frequently 738/739/752s mixed in. During the summer the Friday night redeye was a 752 and several times was sold out.
CLE I believe is the same as well.
IAH has seen a bulk of the cuts and down to 3-4 a day with airbus aircraft mixed in rather than the premerger 738/739s