Delta's hubs ranked by size?

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Jun 23, 2016, 10:13 am

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Originally Posted by NOLAnwGOLD

Summary of linked "Peak-Day Departures"

Would love to see where BOS/SEA/RDU/IND fit into this. (Any other focus cities?)

Jun 23, 2016, 10:54 am

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Some data for the curious, sorted by weekly seats. Lots of places beat CVG.

Station / Weekly departures (July 2016) / Weekly seats (July 2016)

ATL 7065 961906
MSP 3031 348758
DTW 3050 317892
JFK 1551 216654
SLC 1787 200325
LAX 1183 172638
LGA 1731 153791
SEA 1038 135552
BOS 537 67805
MCO 388 66059
SFO 376 60026
LAS 321 46152
CVG 493 44298
RDU 432 41578
DCA 345 40057
PDX 248 39464
FLL 228 38213
ORD 349 36625
DEN 284 36478
TPA 228 34405
AMS 132 34218
SAN 223 34057
NRT 117 30946
DFW 293 30907
PHX 217 29534
MIA 197 29145
PHL 228 27230
BWI 205 26246
IND 244 25866
EWR 212 23670
BNA 221 23458
MKE 194 23265
MCI 188 23030
MSY 190 22826
CLT 209 22553
STL 190 22496
CDG 91 22276
CMH 242 21968
PIT 198 21044
JAX 150 20076

Jun 23, 2016, 10:55 am

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I should get more popcorn from Costco.

I was thinking JFK and SEA would be much bigger.

Jun 23, 2016, 10:59 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GoAmtrak

Would love to see where BOS/SEA/RDU/IND fit into this. (Any other focus cities?)

A couple more hubs included, all data based on what's published at http://news.delta.com/category/hubs.

ATL: 1038
DTW: 455
MSP: 439
LGA: 274
SLC: 256
JFK: 223
LAX: 175
SEA: 149
BOS: 83
CVG: 82
AMS: 36
NRT: 19
CDG: 13

Jun 23, 2016, 11:09 am

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Originally Posted by NOLAnwGOLD

Don't forget LAX! I hope that doesn't mean that we are considered a real hub for points purposes....

Summary of linked "Peak-Day Departures" (TATL/TPAC for CDG, AMS, NRT):

ATL: 1028
DTW: 536
MSP: 442
SLC: 289
MEM: 221
LAX: 175
CVG: 169
LGA: 161
JFK: 151
AMS: 30
CDG: 30
NRT: 27

SEA is still missing from the list.

Jun 23, 2016, 11:32 am

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Originally Posted by bgriff

I believe every city here should have a skyclub if it doesnt already.

Jun 23, 2016, 2:16 pm

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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

When did RDU become a hub? At best it's a focus city. How about BOS?

RDU certainly not a hub. Focus city (whatever that means). DL will be at 70+ departures when they add the RDU-DCA/EWR rounds.

When I briefly worked for DL in 2002, they were calling BOS a hub. Not sure if it still has that distinction, but it should.

Jun 23, 2016, 2:21 pm

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I always thought "hub" was shortened for "hub and spoke", meaning that it was an airport that an airline would funnel lots of pax to for the purpose of making connections. I really don't know, but does BOS have a lot of pax who connect there?

I do know that one of the reasons that DL gave for moving the BOS-LGA flights out of the MAT was that they wanted BOS pax to be able to make connections at LGA.

Jun 23, 2016, 2:21 pm

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Originally Posted by readywhenyouare

Yeah RDU is more of a focus city but I figure there has to be at least some connections in order for 3 RDU-MCO flights and a CDG flight to operate. BOS has way too much international capacity to work on O/D alone I would think so I'm guessing a good amount is connecting traffic.

Actually DL has been ~3x daily on RDU-MCO for the last 15 years or so. Long before all the other p2p flights. WN also flies this 2x daily.

According to RDU's reports, less than 1% of pax were connecting last year.

Jun 23, 2016, 2:24 pm

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Originally Posted by dzflyer

I believe every city here should have a skyclub if it doesnt already.

Well, upon a quick glance, I can certainly tell you that not all cities on that list have one - and good luck getting DL to add them! Also, I sure hope they have enough flights through ATL.

Jun 23, 2016, 6:21 pm

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Originally Posted by HDQDD

MCO-RDU has not been served consistently for 15 years. It was only brought back just a few years ago with a single flight.

Jun 23, 2016, 6:21 pm

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Originally Posted by DCAflyer81

Well, upon a quick glance, I can certainly tell you that not all cities on that list have one - and good luck getting DL to add them! Also, I sure hope they have enough flights through ATL.

I really only want a sky club at CMH