LABJ Insider: Enthusiasts Enjoy Tour at LAX – Los Angeles Business Journal
If I’m going to call out the bad write-ups, then I should also call out the good ones. LABJ had a quick blurb that got all the right points.
Alaska Airlines travelers will need to choose an option to earn frequent flier points – Everett Daily Herald
In a place where Alaska Airlines matters the most, people are now trying to figure out the right way to earn their points.
United Airlines gets gates at O’Hare, American loses a few – Chicago Tribune
Now that American has lost its lawsuit to prevent gates at O’Hare from being reallocated, the shift has happened as planned on October 1. The Trib covered it behind a paywall, but I found another source that has it. The key question here is whether or not the gate allocation process is pro-competition as the city says. My quote on that?
Snyder agreed that “use it or lose it” provisions are pro-capacity, in the sense that they encourage the departure of as many flights as possible out of an airport.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean the provision is pro-competition, he added: The provisions don’t necessarily guarantee that one airline or another, such as United, won’t continue to gain a larger and larger market share at the airport.
“Everyone would like American to keep being the sacrificial lamb to prevent United from dominating Chicago on its own,” he said.
Of course, the flip side is that to keep pace with United’s torrid growth, American has to add a lot, and that likely hurts profitability.
3 responses to “Cranky on the Web: Chicago Gates, Alaska Loyalty, and More Dorkfest”
Re:. ORD gates. Some friends arrived into ORD yesterday on UA. They arrived at T3, presumably the G concourse, and were directed to T1 for their baggage!
My sources tell me that AA took their eye off the ball, and were not paying attention to the lead up to loosing the gates, while UA had responsible people on site watching everything going on.
This is a huge loss for AA. (Or as I refer to them as HP, or US and they bought the name AA!)
Someday the situation in Chicago can be similar to Dallas – a big legacy airline fortress hub in the main airport (O’Hare and DFW) and Southwest over at the constrained airport (Midway and Love). UA is just doing to AA at ORD from the AA playbook against Braniff and Delta at DFW.
These are the gates with new airlines thus far at ORD-Concourse G and it’s 3-Days in and still a work in progress.
ORD G-Concourse
G1A – AA
G1B – AA
G2 – Alaska
G3 – AA
G4 – United
G5 – AA/Contour
G6 – United
G7 – Alaska
G8 – Spirit/AA
G9 – AA
G10 – Spirit/AA
G11 – AA
G12 – Spirit/AA
G13 – AA/JetBlue
G14 – Spirit
G14A
G15 –
G16 – AA
G17 – AA/Contour
G18 – AA
G19 – AA/Contour/Denver Air Connection
G19A
G20 – AA/United
G21 – AA
Also it appears airlines are sharing gates on G-Concourse for various reasons three days in to gate realignment. Alaska’s two gates in E-Concourse have not been used by United as of yet. Air Canada & United still share gates E2 thru E4 regardless of Air Canada losing 1 of 2 gates.
Southwest at ORD is still using Common Use Gates M28 & M29 in T5 as their primary gates and Delta is still using all their Assigned Gates with no turnover of three gates to Southwest as of yet
Spirit might be shedding some gates?
Subject to Change