Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
A rolling hub is great when the weather is great (ATL). But when thunderstorms roll throughand departure/arrival gates get shut down the system gets overwhelmed and there is no longer any accumulator to absorb the shock. If the airport shuts down it’s even worse, it’s impossible to catch up.
Look at what happens to Delta in ATL when thunderstorms roll through or it snows. It takes Delta days to recover.
I predict this will fail and will last for a single summer.
On the flip side maybe they'll have more gates available so less chicken before the egg problem in regards to crews stuck on inbounds waiting on airplanes to push, which are waiting on the crews to park at said gate.
In the past it has always been about connections; maybe they were able to rig up a solution just based on the shear number of flights. By that I mean maybe DFW is just so big now, that a rolling hub can preserve most of the connections that used to only exist with say 600 departures whereas now we do like 900.