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General Lee said:
My opinion is they are upping the price. Why give away something for free? DL bought the Pan Am routes even after Robert Crandall of AA threw in his own bid for them, just to raise the price. Not gonna happen IMO. And the above artice was written in January I believe, and not current.


Bye Bye---General Lee
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This reminds me of how Doug Parker put 2 billion dollars in good will debt on the Delta/Northwest merger.
 
reepicheep said:
There's speculation and then there's facts.

CLT is the weakest O & D hub in the US. RDU & BNA tried and failed. PHX has more domestic O & D than PHL and CLT combined. PHL is a sizeable international gateway but is very close to JFK. PHX & DFW would seem to be geographically redundant. LAX is the second largest air travel market in the US. Draw your own conclusions but "rationalization" is going to come from somewhere.
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CLT is the second banking capital in the US. A third parallel runway was added and a train system is being developed. Too much money being thrown at this place. Dunno.
 
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Citjok said:
CLT is the second banking capital in the US. A third parallel runway was added and a train system is being developed. Too much money being thrown at this place. Dunno.
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Everybody knows headquarters is shipping out of Phoenix, do you need Dallas , Los Angeles and Phoenix.
 
dollacrackho said:
Everybody knows headquarters is shipping out of Phoenix, do you need Dallas , Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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How big is the LAX operation? Any room for expansion at LAX? NOPE. The Eagle's Nest is way down past terminal 8 on the East side. I would think PHX would stay because of the extra room and current routes to almost every major city on the West Coast from there. LAX is more of an O&D destination for business types, PHX is more of a true connection hub.



Bye Bye---General Lee
 
CLT to have a 4th parallel by 2014 or maybe 2015. Think I read the funding is there, Impact studies to be completed soon.
 
STL, BOS, PHL gone. PHX, CLT depending on the need for domestic hubs to relieve JFK, MIA, DFW, LAX. ORD is a cant live with can't live without.
 
We'll dump PHX, it doesn't make money with SWA there, CLT prob. would get downsized, it makes cash because it's cheap to operate there but there's no O and D. Sadly as much as we don't like PHL it makes tons o cash and you can't ignore that size a city on the east coast, esp. when your already there and control it. Can't speak for the AA bases
 
PreContact said:
That's pretty funny. PHL is a cash cow for US. 4th or 5th largest metro area in the USA, not going to give it up when they'd be a distant #3 in NYC.
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WSJ Agreed... Was said to be even better then ORD when it came to international travel.
 
He's just part of that fo club over there..
 

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