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flightline
Not according to Southwest (on the hub issue).
"'In Atlanta, we’re essentially de-hubbing AirTran’s model and moving to the Southwest point-to-point style operation,' said Southwest chief executive Gary Kelly in a message to employees."
From Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 7, 2013. (
http://www.myajc.com/news/business/s...tes-in-atlanta)
Easy as Southwest doesn't acknowledge the word hub in it's operations. But in the eastern US, BWI and ATL are very much hubs. WN is just claiming it moved toward some routes to have more point to point O&D in ATL.
The single ATL-CUN flight is timed coincidentally with all of the WN eastern spokes that have ATL flights. The ATL-PBI/RSW flights from Southwest are very light on O&D in particular, and are driven by connecting traffic.