[Mifnet 🛰 75561] Re: United and American Fight at Chicago’s O’Hare Draws Federal Scrutiny - WSJ

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:11:05 -0800 

 keady -repeating my take on all this. The real chokepoint is runways. For 
example LAX has four runways, 2 for landing and two for takeoffs. Because of 
the configuration this really can't be changed - it's two takeoffs and two 
landings. Thus assuming 40 operations per hour,* LAX can takeoff total of 80 
flights per hour but what if six airlines all want to takeoff at 0700? There's 
a  series of cascading delays starting right there,
The solution isn't that complicated. Tell the airlines to  meet and fairly 
figure it out among themselves. And stop blaming ATC for any lack of asphalt


* This figure has only been reached by one individual, who is now retired


    On Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 09:15:47 AM PST, ATHGroup--- via Mifnet 
<[email protected]> wrote:   

 
Cliff,

  

Having flown into ORD 100s of times as a United Captain, ORD is not full. In 
fact, in my 45-year career as a pilot, I have never flown into an airport that 
was full. Overloaded intermittently - absolutely, full - never. There is a 
difference.

  

The problem is not airport capacity, but the inefficient use of the capacity.

  

Drilling down further, the root cause of most airline delays are the random 
point overloads of our aviation assets (airports, airspace, ramp, gates, etc.) 
that are predictable hours prior, “day of”. But, more importantly, these 
overloads are easily preventable, but only each individual airline can do it 
efficiently. 

  

In other words, aviation is looking at the delay problem incorrectly, 
unnecessarily wasting aircraft productivity, jet fuel, labor, airport capacity 
and profits, costing individual large airlines over $5 Billion annually.

  

Michael

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

R. Michael Baiada

cell - (303) 521-6047

[email protected]

  

From: Cliff Argue via Mifnet <[email protected]> 
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2026 09:07
To: [email protected]
Cc: Cliff Argue <[email protected]>
Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 75559] United and American Fight at Chicago’s O’Hare Draws 
Federal Scrutiny - WSJ

  

Now the Feds are getting involved in the United-American fight at O'Hare.

  

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/united-and-american-fight-at-chicagos-ohare-draws-federal-scrutiny-bc28780b?st=hRXMMK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

  

Cliff Argue
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