Originally Posted by baseball

I don't think it's being looked at very deeply. We have so much feed from latin, central, and south America, and in just regional feed to IAH that the IAH-CDG flight makes allot of sense. Those customers have to fly an extra leg, sometimes half a day to connect elsewhere. CDG is so central to European traffic and as a gate-way to Europe and the rest of the world it makes perfect sense to connect a beta-gamma city to a world gateway city such as Paris.

I don't think IAH-LHR makes much sense, but heck we do it 3 times a day. Paris could likely be done 2x daily out of IAH without a problem. I remember the Jeff Smizek (wonder where he's at now) temper tantrum when SWA opened their Hobby International hub. That was interesting.

I hear it allot from local Petro-chemical engineers that they would like to get to Paris allot easier because it eases their connection problems to other places in Europe.

Travel agents tell me that London, Paris, and Dubai are the 3 biggest connection and transfer points globally.