more US Air woes.....

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Haha routes and gates are being sold off...it's called Mid Atlantic Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, Allegheny Airlines, Chataqua Airlines, and oh yeah...Mesa Airlines.

US Airways is very smart with their Express carrier and in fact plans on drastically altering their routes in February to handle the slower time after the holidays. This includes a something like a 25% productivity increase by the pilots and parking (yes parking) 25 airplanes from mainline while our schedules increase about that much also.

Anyone that's been to Philly should know the gates aren't worth anything anyway...it's Philly...
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Those routes all still belong to USAirways, but I think I know what you mean.

Kell is saying that OTHER CARRIERS may pay cash for some of the routes.
 
Besides LGA and international slots, probably better to pick them up after they get dropped as opposed to actually pay for them.
 
Domestically, there are no "routes" to own really, just gates and slots, possible exception of DCA. Internationally, the routes are something of actual value, since each has to be negotiated seperately as part of a bilateral through the U.S. DOS.
 
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