Originally Posted by
plinth857
I still can't get over the irony of Hemisphere publishing their little "dossier" on Cleveland and highlighting it as a city and distributing it the same month that it was de-hubbed (February 2014). Almost as if Smisek planned it that way just for his own little ironic humor.
The dehubbing was an act of desperation when UA found itself unable to operate with acceptable reliability because of merger blues and a pilot shortage. Something had to go - fast. CLE fit the bill. The economic rationale was manufactured. Hence, the weird timing of the Hemispheres article.