[Mifnet 🛰 75222] Fw: United Announced A Chicago “Line In The Sand” Meant To Prevent New Flights — American Just Added Routes Anyway - View from the Wing

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Announced A Chicago “Line In The Sand” Meant To Prevent New Flights — American 
Just Added Routes Anyway - View from the Wing  
          
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 United Announced A Chicago “Line In The Sand” Meant To Prevent New Flights — 
American Just Added Routes Anyway - View from the Wing 
 
United’s CEO Scott Kirby went out of his way on the earnings call to “draw a 
line in the sand” in Chicago—promising United will add flights to match any 
American expansion at O’Hare. The point of saying it publicly wasn’t bravado. 
It was deterrence: to signal to American (and to analysts) that new Chicago 
capacity will be met in kind, making growth less attractive for both airlines. 
American’s response came fast anyway, announcing new routes from O’Hare—turning 
Kirby’s game-theory warning into an immediate test of whether this becomes a 
real fare war or a negotiation by headline.
 
 
đź”—https://viewfromthewing.com/united-announced-a-chicago-line-in-the-sand-meant-to-prevent-new-flights-american-just-added-routes-anyway/
 
   
 
 
   
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