Originally Posted by
Ripinpeace
IAH is a joke and way over-served as is due to its status as a hub. As far as a southern region hub goes for the legacies IAH is by far the weakest and least globally connected.
I know you're probably just late-night trolling as usual, but I'll bite.
IAH is certainly a dump - what southern region hub for a legacy carrier isn't? - but IAH is certainly not a joke.
Currently IAH is the weakest of the ATL/CLT/DFW/IAH combo but has significantly more potential than ATL. If IAH is over-served, ATL is even more over-served.
The IAH metro is 120% the size of the ATL metro and IAH also has notably better geography for domestic, LatAm, and global connectivity unless you're trying to go to South Africa.
I'd expect IAH to continue to grow at a reasonable rate. Will it ever have the variety of Europe flying that ATL does? no, but you also can't take DL direct from ATL to SYD or AA from CLT to SYD either.