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Airports
| March 28th, 2021 at 12:02:57 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4967 | I guess with is probably a question for Paco. He seems to be the residential air travel expert on this forum. What is the smallest city that is considered a hub for a major airline? I'm thinking in the U.S. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| March 28th, 2021 at 12:11:16 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11799 |
Out of the business but It seemed there are big hubs and small hubs Take AA, big hub DFW and ORD, small hub RDU if its still a hub Also airline takeovers effect if a hub is still used. AA had RDU. Took over US air that used CLT. Thats 2 hubs close to each other. Did AA downsize RDU. I lived travel most of my life, now I hardly think about it Also Delta took over NW, are they downsizing those hubs Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| March 28th, 2021 at 12:16:19 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4967 |
Its funny that you mentioned Northwest. The only Northwest hub that I remember was Minneapolis. I doubt if RDU would still be considered a hub but i really don't know what the criteria would be to consider a city a hub. Come to think of it, jFK was probably a Northwest hub. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| March 28th, 2021 at 4:15:13 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
A hub is defined by the airline. There is no FAA definition. RDU is defined as a "focus city" by American Airlines American Hubs Charlotte Dallas/Fort Worth Miami Philadelphia Phoenix–Sky Harbor Washington–National - US AIRPORT hub with the least amount of passenger traffic Chicago–O'Hare also United hub New York–JFK also Delta hub New York–LaGuardia also Delta hub Los Angeles also United & Delta hub Delta Hubs Atlanta- US AIRPORT hub with the most amount of passenger traffic Boston Detroit Minneapolis/St. Paul Salt Lake City Seattle/Tacoma Los Angeles also United & Delta hub United Hubs Denver Guam Houston–Intercontinental Newark San Francisco Washington–Dulles Chicago–O'Hare also American hub Los Angeles also American & Delta hub Southwest chooses not to call any airport a hub even though they clearly have hubs at DAL and MDW for example Guam is certainly the smallest hub of a US airline with fewer than 4 million passengers a year.. These are the 30 mainland airports that each carried more than 1% of passengers traffic in the US for 2019 ATL Atlanta LAX Los Angeles ORD Chicago DFW Fort Worth DEN Denver JFK New York SFO San Francisco International Airport SEA Seattle LAS Las Vegas - not a formal hub MCO Orlando - not a formal hub CLT Charlotte EWR Newark PHX Phoenix IAH Houston MIA Miami BOS Boston MSP Minneapolis DTW Detroit FLL Fort Lauderdale PHL Philadelphia LGA New York BWI Glen Burnie SLC Salt Lake City SAN San Diego IAD Dulles DCA Arlington TPA Tampa MDW Chicago HNL Honolulu PDX Portland Delta upgraded Boston to hub status in June 2019 only about 9 months before COVID hit. It is probably the airport hub with the least amount of traffic on the airline that declared it a hub. |