https://www.thestreet.com/story/13958950/2/outspoken-united-airlines-president-concedes-forecast-failure-and-challenges-delta.html

"Kirby said United's first quarter is always weaker than Delta's and American's (AAL) because United does not have a Southeast hub, while Delta has Atlanta and American has Charlotte, enabling them to carry more traffic to winter destinations in Florida and the Caribbean."

I'm not sure this means we'll open up a southeastern hub like MCO, but at least the void has caught managements attention. Maybe the gradual guppy build up at IAD is an attempt to make it a quasi-southeastern hub eventually. There is definitely enough room at Dulles to reallocate and/or acquire resources from other underperforming hubs and routes.

Or who knows maybe it is time to mimic Delta and migrate away from some of our high cost airports and towards low cost hubs.