From a posting impaired reader:

“To the person who wrote the first email . . . either you’re an NW employee preparing to testify to the judge or you’re smoking something reeeeaaaalllly good.

NW did NOT find an underserved market here that they think has profit potential.  This is simply a slap back at AA and nothing more.

AA has a legitimate market reason for flying to MSP since they have a large NYC presence, but NW won’t have any of it.  And that’s how we got where we are today.”