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Old Jun 15, 2010 | 9:55 am
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dustycrockett
 
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Originally Posted by elitetraveler
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The Dallas Morning News doesn't provide quotes and "a substantial presence" leaves plenty of wiggle room.
They didn't provide quotes because there were no quotes.

The original article (from "Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation") didn't have "quotes" about the San Juan hub.

It says "he confirmed" three things. All of these are true, but they don't equate to a closure of the Eagle hub in San Juan:

* 2008, American mainline officially downgraded SJU from hub status to "spoke".
* shortly after that, Eagle moved about half it's SJU fleet of regional aircraft to Dallas, and
* over the past year or so, Eagle starting service to a few communities near military bases (although none of these are related in any way to SJU or Miami).
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