CVG was a massive hub, Delta’s second largest. Bigger than SLC or JFK. Probably bigger than any hub JetBlue or Spirit has today.

At any given time we had 8 “screens” full of departure information and they didn’t go more than 4 or 5 hours into the future. Daily flights to Narita, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and over a dozen more in Europe and Asia, and 6 flights/day to places such as Toledo, Appleton, Des Moines, and Syracuse. Just too close to both DTW and MSP when the Northwest merger went through.