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Old Sep 15, 2005, 8:01 pm
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MAH4546
 
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
As WN continues to expand and thrive at PIT, this was bound to happen. Same thing LAX-SJC - All Eagle, All the Time.
It has little, if anything, to do with Southwest. ORD and MIA were already all-Eagle, and those are where WN indirectly competed (with MDW and FLL). WN is not allowed to carry PIT-DAL passengers on one ticket, so they didn't compete there.

It has to do with getting rid of high-paying mainline stations, and replacing them with lower-paying Eagle stations. Unfortunate, but one of the cuts that keeps AA as the most financially stable legacy airline.
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