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Old Apr 20, 2005, 9:41 am
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justageek
 
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Originally Posted by cws818vc
Well, IF it (US+HP) comes to fruition, it could add fuel to the long-smoldering spark between AA and AS. Were this to happen, hopefully AA would learn to regard the West Coast as something other than a colony of sorts. Of course, they could move the SEA hub or the PDX "hub-let" down to SJC and then shut it down in a few years.....

At the very least, AA might try to bring AS into the oneworld orbit in a more official capacity.
I can't imagine AS agreeing to this... They are struggling as it is, and need all the traffic they get from their non-OW partners.
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