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Old Nov 19, 2013 | 11:36 am
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Originally Posted by warreng24
I am surprised there's no mention of US leaving Star Alliance and the US UA codeshares that will be terminated.
There was. It was mentioned that this would free up a bunch of flight numbers which would help operationally over time.
Originally Posted by Neil35
...and all added flights on the list are from USA.

With the de facto de-hubbing of NRT, intra-Asia flyers will have hard time staying with United.
OK, but those are not customers UA was going after in the first place. Or probably shouldn't have been. Not enough of them spending enough money with UA to justify the other investments necessary to keep them happy when JV partners can do much of the heavy lifting in their place.

Originally Posted by transportprof
I doubt the majority of FTers would be classified as valuable in Jeff's world.
Indeed; just go look in the PQD thread for a few prime examples (self included).
Originally Posted by dcsnowwake
this is just insane. giving up NRT slots is just assinine no matter how you look at them. These are valuable spots
I doubt they are giving them all up.
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