Originally Posted by
inOban
Fair enough. Why does the ORD a/c spend so much longer on the ground in EDI than the other TATL flights?
What proportion of pax are connecting onwards? By all accounts tgere are still many, possibly the majority, of TATL passengers who choose to fly via LHR or AMS. Is it just prices?
I am sure that UA use EDI to rotate aircraft round between their hubs, so the aircraft that comes in from ORD might head back to EWR or IAD and vice versa. They used to do this anyway.
i did wonder if DL would do the same with JFK and BOS.