United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (UAL) is forging ahead to strengthen its competitive position in the airline industry. To this end, UAL has applied for a new daily roundtrip flight between Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), with the U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”).The DCA-SFO route is likely to offer multiple nonstop options to customers and provide connections from SFO to about two dozen domestic markets within the Western United States, ...