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Aug 2, 2014 | 1:09 pm

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Originally Posted by smilinganddialing

While DFW and MIA are too far south to be good TATL gateways and JFK is going to be O&D focused, ORD stage lengths to European OW hubs are marginally longer than those from PHL: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=ORD+-+L...MAD,+PHL+-+MAD

Chicago has 2.5x the O&D traffic of Philly with a downtown that's booming - highest job creation and population growth of any city core in the US: http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-...kets-us.html#b

Have you bothered to loook at all of the TATL flights that are already flown out of ORD? The number of non-US Airways TATL flights out of PHL is equal to the number of LH flights out of ORD. (And that's including the two BA flights out of PHL!!) So now that US will be included in the ATI/JV with AA/BA/IB/AY, they will basically monopolize the TATL traffic at PHL, as they will compete against one daily LH flight and one seasonaly on DL. Whereas at ORD AA/BA/IB will have to take on UA, LH, SR, OS, TK, AF, EI, LO, AL, SK, KL, AB, VS. Which indicates that the TATL service out of ORD pretty much reflects the fact it has 2.5X the amount of O&D than PHL.