WN Announces Newest Cities: ORD and IAH: AA Response?
Oct 12, 2020, 11:24 am
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WN Announces Newest Cities: ORD and IAH: AA Response?
WN has announced they will begin service out of ORD and IAH. Shots fired!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/sout...d-chicago.html
Curious to see if either AA or UA retaliate with flights out of MDW, HOU, DAL or other WN fortresses or any other way...if they even retaliate at all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/sout...d-chicago.html
Curious to see if either AA or UA retaliate with flights out of MDW, HOU, DAL or other WN fortresses or any other way...if they even retaliate at all.
Oct 12, 2020, 2:36 pm
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Relevant thread over in the WN forum:
Southwest is claiming IAH and ORD service in 2021
Southwest is claiming IAH and ORD service in 2021
Oct 12, 2020, 2:49 pm
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WN has announced they will begin service out of ORD and IAH. Shots fired!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/sout...d-chicago.html
Curious to see if either AA or UA retaliate with flights out of MDW, HOU, DAL or other WN fortresses or any other way...if they even retaliate at all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/12/sout...d-chicago.html
Curious to see if either AA or UA retaliate with flights out of MDW, HOU, DAL or other WN fortresses or any other way...if they even retaliate at all.
Oct 12, 2020, 4:15 pm
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There are only 21 gates in Terminal 5. Sky Team will get at least 8 of those with Delta moving from Terminal 2. I would think that they would get two gates full time and split a third with a foreign carrier.
At Midway, there isn't any space. AA fought against them years ago when they were contesting DAL and the Wright Amendment, but that was before the current MDW terminal. United didn't bother even then.
At Midway, there isn't any space. AA fought against them years ago when they were contesting DAL and the Wright Amendment, but that was before the current MDW terminal. United didn't bother even then.
Oct 12, 2020, 7:22 pm
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Oct 12, 2020, 8:03 pm
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Wouldn’t the more pertinent topic for the AA forum be WN starting CLT-PHX and CLT-DEN? Competing with both UA and AA for DEN....I guess WN sees an opportunity...or smells blood? Will be interesting to see the frequencies....
Oct 13, 2020, 12:32 am
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Yes, they did. They pulling out of IAH completely. They left IAH in 2005. They tried IAH in the past and it did not work. This is third time. They came back IAH again. I believe they will be at terminal A.
Oct 13, 2020, 10:02 am
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Oct 13, 2020, 10:10 am
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Oct 13, 2020, 10:31 am
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IAH is meaningless to AA and UA is the dominant player at ORD now. So there definitely is some impact to AA, but by listing IAH and ORD, to me that's more for UA than anyone else. If it was DFW and ORD, different story.
Oct 13, 2020, 11:44 am
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ORD-DAL would cause AA some annoyance... They aren't going to fly ORD-IAH nonstop, but WN can cause a little havoc by adding frequencies to high value mainline coach routes. Does AA really want to see a weekday 0630 ORD-DAL-AUS with a DTW-ORD-DAL right behind it?