Originally Posted by
george 3
That leaves a complicated LAX situation [...]. Much debate has occurred in other AA threads about the Eagles Nest at LAX. US is all the way over at T1. No room at T4Want to take a flyer? The "important day" January 7, 2014 is also the day of the first 321Transcon from LAX to JFK. Announcement that AA will begin negotiations to build a new terminal east of Sepulveda and the United terminal. Anyone have any other ideas concerning logistics at LAX? Retreat?
Actually, it's not as complicated at LAX as it sounds.
First of all, US is already moving out of T1 to T3. That was
announced a while before the merger.
Second, US only has 3 gates at T3.
Third,
AA/US was forced to give up 2 gates at LAX in the settlement with the DOJ. So
that leaves only one US gate at T3.
That means they're
only losing one gate if they surrender T3 completely. If they keep one T3 gate for now, remember there was a T4-T3 airside bus back when AS was in T3, so theoretically they could reinstate that for a US T3 gate in reaaly needed.
Meanwhile, AA is gaining the use of 4 gates in TBIT (though I'm not sure what the timing is). And/or they could ask Qantas to go there (Qantas using a bit of AA gates in T4 currently).