UA signs long term DEN lease
08-21-2014, 11:42 PM
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I don't fully understand the logic to place hubs in locations with historically bad weather. Denver might not be the prime example, but it certainly gets its share of blizzards and snowstorms in the winter as well as storms and even tornadoes in the summer. Chicago operations lost a lot of money this year due to weather.
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
08-22-2014, 05:38 AM
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I don't fully understand the logic to place hubs in locations with historically bad weather. Denver might not be the prime example, but it certainly gets its share of blizzards and snowstorms in the winter as well as storms and even tornadoes in the summer. Chicago operations lost a lot of money this year due to weather.
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
08-22-2014, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by deltajuliet
I don't fully understand the logic to place hubs in locations with historically bad weather. Denver might not be the prime example, but it certainly gets its share of blizzards and snowstorms in the winter as well as storms and even tornadoes in the summer. Chicago operations lost a lot of money this year due to weather.
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
08-22-2014, 05:50 AM
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Hubs need to have strong local traffic to be viable. In the 1960s as ORD was being built into a hub, it had many things going for it. A strong business market with lots of local traffic, and an ideal geographic location. I suppose that is why Chicago became such a massive rail hub as well. Certainly ORD suffers from the weather issues. However, I think the bigger problem with ORD is how it has been utilized. Those issues are being addressed.
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08-22-2014, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by APC225
Like Southwest? They used to be only south of the snow line because that's where the fighter pilot training bases were. They eventually had to move some hubs to where the passengers are.
08-22-2014, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by deltajuliet
I don't fully understand the logic to place hubs in locations with historically bad weather. Denver might not be the prime example, but it certainly gets its share of blizzards and snowstorms in the winter as well as storms and even tornadoes in the summer. Chicago operations lost a lot of money this year due to weather.
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
08-22-2014, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by deltajuliet
Why not put hubs exclusively in places like Phoenix where weather is hunky dory 350 days of the year?
08-23-2014, 05:32 AM
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Besides the occasional sand storm/ Haboob there were few days when I was based there with AWA that we had to cease operation for extreme heat. Most of the Boeing performance charts top out at about 120deg F.
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