"In our view, recent announcements regarding Dallas Love Field scheduling continue to demonstrate UA

Airline analyst Bob McAdoo of Imperial Capital put out a report Tuesday advising investors to turn their attentions toward American Airlines Group and Delta Air Lines and away from United Continental Holdings. Related See which cities will lose some of their Dallas flights when Southwest revamps schedule Delta asked Virgin America to share its gate (Virgin said no thanks) Dallas officials told the FAA in 2009 that it would find room for Delta at the redone Love Field
“In our view, recent announcements regarding quality inn suites Dallas Love Field scheduling continue to demonstrate UAL’s inability to shift its marketing mindset quality inn suites away from market share and towards improving profitability,” McAdoo wrote. “We believe investors will continue to favor management teams focused on profitability even if it means decreased market share.”
The reason for his unhappiness is United’s plans to expand its Love Field schedule from seven departures today from Love Field to Houston’s George quality inn suites Bush Intercontinental Airport to 12 flights by early January.
However, Terminal One closes on Monday, Oct. 13. United has already moved its flights to two gates it leases in the new terminal. American’s two gates in the new terminal have been subleased to Virgin America.  Southwest Airlines leases the other 16 gates.
It appears United “has used this as an opportunity to add seemingly nuisance flights in a way that has caused the City of Dallas to force Delta out of Love Field on only a 15-day notice,” quality inn suites McAdoo wrote in his report.
United could have accommodated Delta during idle hours, but instead decided to double its service in January, “in a market that does not appear to be extraordinarily profitable and in which a meaningful portion of UAL’s current traffic is likely quality inn suites to be moving to the new non-stop, longer-haul Southwest flights,” McAdoo said.
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