Originally Posted by tailendcharlie

I think what he said was that of all the hubs DCA and CLT were among the top 5 in margin - DCA was #2 CLT was #5, PHL and PHX were in the "middle of the pack."

Having the best margin is not the same as most profitable....CLT costs are rock-bottom but there's virtually no local traffic..almost no O & D at all. You could just as easily move that hub to RDU or BNA and keeping the same low costs you would have a high-margin hub. "Most profitable?" I haven't seen data on total profit by hub but in the case of CLT I seriously doubt it. In the case of a AMR/LCC merge I would have serious doubts about CLT surviving the cut.