Originally Posted by Bear96

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.