"But the real problem is that Emirates, the airline with the most experience — operating since 1985, the largest route network and the largest fleet by far — is based in the emirate without money".
American thinks it can make money in St . Louisby connecting T.W.A. with American's larger route network and using it to relieve congestion at O'Hare International in Chicago, a hub it shares with United.
Pan Am lacks a large domestic route network to feed its international flights, which are concentrated at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
American will greatly expand its presence on the East Coast, adding 14 gates at six airports stretching from Atlanta to Boston, while United will inherit the rest of the large US Airways route network in the region.
Nor does JetBlue have a large enough domestic route network to move sufficient numbers of U.S. passengers to Europe via JFK or to attract large numbers of Europeans bound for U.S. destinations beyond New York.
These lanes will form part of a larger dedicated games route network that will also be used by people working on the event.
With consideration of the situation in China, there are thousands of flights per day and the air route network is large and complex, which makes the long-term problem to be a large-scale combinatorial optimization problem with complex constraints.
But for months, Mr. Wolf and Mr. Gangwal have argued that the airline's survival is in doubt because it is neither a large carrier with an extensive route network like United nor a low-cost operator like its growing competitor, Southwest Airlines.
If Mr. Carty's ambitious plans are successful, American and United Airlines, which is owned by the UAL Corporation, will be the nation's two dominant carriers, each with a route network much larger and more comprehensive than their nearest rivals.
The deal as proposed would give United by far the biggest domestic route network, filling the large gap it now has in the Eastern United States.
