"If there's bad weather in Chicago, don't go through Chicago" if you don't have to, Boyd said.

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Boyd, who thinks multiple airlines generally don't go well together, couldn't agree more.

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"I don't see teenagers leaving in droves, " boyd says.

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Don't believe the hype from either corner, warns Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group, a Colorado-based aviation consulting firm.

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