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Mar 22, 2020 | 3:41 pm

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With HND opening up more slots and more NH/UA flights shifting to HND, how would it work?

I wonder if a lot of the retrofits (Polaris, CRJ550) will be put on hold.

Are they going to devalue MileagePlus more or somehow use it to stimulate demand, including redemptions?

I can see some of the improvements going away - no more free snacks in Y, etc. Maybe even the free 1K/GS snack. Basically every department will be asked to cut xx%...

UA will hold onto the HND slots, I’m sure, but I could see them dialing back direct TPAC flights elsewhere and route them through NRT instead. Who knows - just purely guessing.

As for Polaris retrofits, I think the 764s will never get Polaris before they are retired, and it will take much longer for 788/789s to be done (if ever).

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