The airport is a hub for both airlines, making it the only dual-hub airport in the US. But American claims that United wants to elbow it out so it can become the “sole hub carrier” of the fourth-busiest airport in the world.
“United’s long-term plan for O’Hare envisions no place for American,” lawyers for American wrote in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Chicago.
A United Airlines airplane at a gate at O’Hare International Airport (ORD) in Chicago, Illinois.
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In January, United asked the
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