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Old Dec 27, 2022 | 7:55 am
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Originally Posted by seat38a

Also saw an article on why Southwest is having a total meltdown vs the big 3 and the explanation was that the big 3 use a hub and spoke model which vs Southwest's point to point which spreads the flight crews all over the place.
I keep hearing this in the media too and I am not sure I buy it. WN definitely has what are hubs by any reasonable definition (BWI, MDW, HOU, DAL, DEN, PHX, LAS). And other airlines that are traditionally considered to have a hub and spoke model have periodic meltdowns too. All airline crews and aircraft at UA, for example, don't spend all day doing ORD-STL-ORD-STL-ORD. Though there are some schedules like that, more typically they go all over the system.
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