{"id":2498,"date":"2018-07-05T03:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2018-07-05T03:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:49:13","slug":"united-continentals-small-city-strategy-showing-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"United Continental&#8217;s Small-City Strategy Showing Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: #26282a; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\" data-reactid=\"11\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Beginning in 2017, <strong>United Continental<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker\">(NYSE: UAL)<\/span> executed an abrupt strategy shift. After years of slow growth, the U.S. airline giant began expanding aggressively, with a particular focus on adding more routes to small and midsize cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">However, United Airlines now plans to cut several small-city routes from its Chicago hub after Labor Day. This could mean nothing more than that these particular routes are underperforming compared to other small-city flights. Yet it is also possible that United is being forced to rethink its entire expansion strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/united-continental-apos-small-city-132000022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Continental&#8217;s Small-City Strategy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2499\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ERJ-175LR-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ERJ-175LR-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ERJ-175LR-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ERJ-175LR-1024x393.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in 2017, United Continental (NYSE: UAL) executed an abrupt strategy shift. After years of slow growth, the U.S. airline giant began expanding aggressively, with a particular focus on adding more routes to small and midsize cities. However, United Airlines now plans to cut several small-city routes from its Chicago hub after Labor Day. 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