Originally Posted by
VWang1111
How do you know those 6 seats were sold and not upgrades or awards? If UA really wanted to cut costs, they could funnel all international traffic through a single international gateway with domestic connections.
Interesting perspective. That may be the salvation if SFO and ORD are the only international gateways. You are correct on the seats sold. I do not have that answer so they could be "give aways". I note the loads on ORD/LAX seem to be much higher then those I quote in OP.