Originally Posted by
jdavk
Yeah, all of the ex-CAL guys have heard these excuses for years (applied to all of the hubs as CEOs came and went) from actual airline managers, not the wannabe pilot “experts” around here, a lot of whom don’t even fly airplanes, from the look of it.
Yet when CAL had DEN and LAX bases IAH still thrived as an international airport, even when oil was the only economic driver in town. Oh well, Mama U has other plans and Kirby has done a good job running the place so it is what it is.
Anyway, I’m glad to have access to all of the management expertise here capable of explaining away the loss of market share!
Ok….
IAH thrived in those circumstances because DEN losing money hand over fist and the costs of moving over to DIA was too much for Continental to swallow coming out of Bankruptcy 2.0….
LAX hasn’t been a hub for Continental since the Robert F Six days…. Pretty sure none of us were in the industry during those days…..
After the DEN hub closure, It was all IAH, EWR for international or nothing. It’s easy to run more international flights if you have 2 hubs to feed passengers through….