Raise your hand if you had Erie, Pennsylvania, and Johnson City, Tennessee, at the center of a turf war between two of the United States’ biggest airlines.
Few of you probably saw that coming, yet that’s exactly where those two cities ended up after United Airlines abruptly added them to its network Friday — and just a day after both were included in a broader 16-route expansion by rival American Airlines.
Of course, United and American aren’t really fighting over Erie and Johnson City — but rather over Chicago's O’Hare International Airport (ORD), where each operates a large connecting hub at the nation’s fourth-busiest airport.
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