From the information we have received, United has said that it will be evaluating the profitability of the Cleveland hub(there is an agreement in place that keeps it here for at least a few more years). As far as consolidation, that would be a result of there not being enough traffic from CLE, so this is the area we are exploring. Looking around, it doesn't seem as if overall travel has decreased at all, the issue being that there is too high a percentage of leisure travelers compared to business travelers. While it is not necessarily bad for leisure travelers to not have a hub(generally it causes a decrease in prices), there would most likely be jobs lost as fewer flights are going through CLE as well as a decrease in non-stop flights. As just one piece of the puzzle, we are looking at price sensitivity of business travelers in CLE as compared to other cities/regions. There are most likely other factors involved as well.