Originally Posted by
DrBeeper
I have to go with Cigarman on his analysis. As a PLAT with AA and GOLD with CO, I have to give my business to CO. For me, the only AA dominant routes are CMH-ORD (CO requires connection through CLE) and CMH-DFW (ditto).
If UA and CO merge, I will be interested in seeing if E+ survives (a nice feature, but does it make net profits?).
Also, slogging through ORD after an international flight is less than wonderful.
AA does have much nastier hubs for sure. And they just don't understand food service. The new bizzion dollar terminal at JFK has ZERO chain restaraunts. They are all nasty "mom and pop" joints. It's like they took kickbacks from the mob, or something, when picking food vendors in a giant terminal. Chicago and DFW both have issues with seating and enough food. And their airports seem to have those zillion security points that can't be staffed, thus the giant backups. Verses the small number of more efficent (bigger) security points at CO airports.