Originally Posted by flyingpharmd
If you see a NW/AA hookup, you can kiss MSP and DTW goodbye. Why would AA need them, given their desire to dominate the Chicago market and put the DTW and MSP traffic right into ORD.
There would be a significant downsizing for sure, but both MSP and DTW have huge O/D bases as well, and there's no way ORD could handle that excess capacity.