Originally Posted by
FWAAA
When Kirby went to UA, he mentioned that UA's abandonment of JFK may have been a strategic error. Has he said anything about TLV since he got to UA?
JFK is an airport for the largest market in the US (and supports more premium service than any other USA market). TLV is, well, not, plus UA flies there, so "hey, TLV is awesome for us here at United" is unlikely to come up on an analyst call the same way "boy, I wish we had JFK presence, this is part of why our numbers aren't as good as I'd like" did.
Given that AA seems to prefer PHL for new TATL service over JFK and they cut PHL-TLV fairly recently it's hard for me to see them reinstating it.