Originally Posted by
etiene
I'm guessing this was in the hope that some kind of precedencial value was established in the event that they should wish to abandon a route in future - which would undermine the goal of the application process further.
I think AA would have also been happy to move a slot to DFW, where most routes seem to work well for them.
UA, overall, seems happy with their gateways. HNL not back yet, but I think the chance to get an extra slot from DL outweighs the weakness of HNL, which is probably stronger than DL’s HNL slot, given the JV with NH.