"[From UA's news release]...Effective Sept. 7, 2005, Ted will offer roundtrip
service between San Francisco and Ontario, Calif.,
twice daily. This service is brand new to United,
and does not represent a conversion of an existing
mainline route to Ted."
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Sorry, WHQ, but this route is not "brand new" to UA. As all Sh***le fans remember, this route was flown for about six years, 1995-2001 with Shuttle by United B73X equipment. My UA pocket timetable for Sep. - Oct. 01 shows 5 daily UA RTs on this route. Service was frequently delayed into/out of SFO but it was an established UA route. UA has done the same with West Coast service into/out of OAK, expanding, cutting, ramping up, slowing down, now, OAK->LAX is almost all UX.

If we can get some consistency of UA jet service year-to-year in some of these markets, maybe UA can actually build business in these W. Coast markets which have seen good recoveries.