Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
United has decided to sit on their two gates at DAL and increase DAL-IAH to 12 daily ERJ-145's with 90 minute turns (that's long enough to turn an international widebody flight). No wonder UA is such a piss poor airline. Dumping rj's to prevent another airline from flying to ATL is downright childish.
This is how the airline business works. Don't you think that if the shoe were on the other hand, DL wouldn't do the same thing, or something similar? If DL actually wanted the slots in question, they could try to buy them from UA, along with leasing the gate, should they need it.