Originally Posted by
COSPILOT
Assuming that UA has everything figured out is wrong. Bad decisions can be made by any company, including UA.
Certainly. However, UA has years of highly-relevant data on any given route, whereas the rest of us have anecdotal data at best.
Is it possible that UA is making a mistake? Of course; there's always the network effect. They will likely have some percentage of flyers defect because LAX-DFW was a flight that they really needed. Their hope is obviously that whatever new service they add will bring more profitable replacement customers.
My point is just that none of us know the situation as well as UA, and to say things like there is "[n]o reason they should have discontinued them" is to make an awful lot of assumptions.