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United Airlines Won’t Be Punished Over Decision to Close Cleveland Hub

Brian Sumers

Photo Credit: United Airlines closed its Cleveland hub in 2014, saying it was not profitable.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aircraft_at_Cleveland_Hopkins_International_Airport#/media/File:United_B737_at_Cleveland_Airport.jpg / Jldohm

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United said all along it had not violated a 2010 agreement requiring it to keep a certain number of flights in Cleveland for five years, and it seems an auditor has agreed.

United Airlines complied with a legal agreement it signed in 2010 that was supposed to require it to keep its Cleveland hub open for at least five years, even after it closed that hub in 2014, according to an auditor's report commissioned by Ohio's attorney general. While the report is confidential, the attorney general's office released a summary suggesting United did not violate its agreement, which called for the carrier to operate a certain number of flights for a five-year period after its merger with Continental Airlines. The state's then-attorney general, Richard Cordray, sought the agreem

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