Originally Posted by ashill

And especially the fact that US and DL swapped 42 DCA slot pairs for 132 LGA slot pairs (which I think US was largely using for turboprop flights around NY and the neighboring states), and then US/AA had to give up the extra DCA slot pairs in the merger. So ultimately US gave DL 132 LGA slot pairs for a player to be named later who never got out of the minors.

AA (pre- or post-merger) would have been able to make much better use of those slot pairs than US, I think pretty much everyone agrees.