Delta to keep CVG as a hub....

[John Pennekamp]

Oh, and Richard, believe me, I've seen many of John's posts and realize how inflammatory he can be. He's in that category with General Lee. If you don't take him personal, you can sift the facts from the opinions and possibly learn something.

Bravo! Someone else "gets it"!

 

[Slim]

SLC has low yields.


CVG has already been scaled back. Comair made money there before they were purchased. However, if Mainline does not maintain a hub there, due to scope, Comair will not have a hub as a Delta Connection.

No matter what is being said today, if there is a merger, many things will change! The only hub that will be safe is Atlanta.

Good observations!

Here are two more precedents, albeit from the pre-9/11 era.

First, AA announced RDU as a hub in the mid-1980s. Then, BNA was announced as a hub. That left many of us at AMR (I was there at the time.) scratching our heads. How could two hubs operate so close to each other? For several years, they did. But, when AA purchased Eastern's MIA hub, RDU and BNA scaled down very rapidly. Both were closed as crew bases, BNA for a second time.

Second, also in the 1980s, USAir purchased the original Piedmont. This was to fight off a possible hostile takeover bid from Carl Icahn. For 12-18 months, the merged carrier tried to operate PIT (USAir) and DAY (Piedmont) hubs simultaneously. It didn't work and DAY was shut down as a hub. Some attempts to start a new carrier at DAY (Heartland) never saw a first flight.

There's a lot more to go...fly safe!

 

[scarlet]

CVG and MEM will be GONE once the merger !!!

Good things will come for Airtran, JB, SW