Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
Those long standby lists are mostly employees trying to non-rev between the hubs.
My point was that the only people who should be on hub to hub flights are O/D and those who are traveling from a city only served by hub X to a city only served by hub Y. An example would be someone flying from Elmira, NY (only served by DTW) to Williston, ND (only served by MSP). That person would actually have a need to double connect with a routing of ELM-DTW-MSP-ISN. There are very few people who need to do such a thing. It is very inefficient to be shuttling people between hubs if you can get them there with only one stop. An inefficient routing would be something like GRR-DTW-MSP-SMF. Just route that person GRR-MSP-SMF.
Just because you can fly to a city from both hubs doesn't mean double connecting is inefficient. I used to fly GFK-MSP-DTW-SAT even though of course there's a flight to SAT from MSP. Time of the flights was the issue. If I waited for the flight from MSP-SAT I would add 4 or 5 hours to my travel. By double connecting and flying DTW-SAT I got home much earlier.