Originally Posted by
EWR764
GUM was never intended to be anything more than what it is… a stand-alone legacy operation serving the (tiny) local market and declining numbers of tourists.
For a pax transfer hub, it is far, out of the way for virtually all major traffic flows and will never fill that role at United.
I’m thinking more of the CO days. Obviously the post merger UA ignored GUM. It historically had more flights to SE and East Asia than today. It wasn’t a terrible way to get to CNS for example. IAH-HNL-GUM-CNS, worked out well.
Originally Posted by
lsquare
What's the history of GUM and why is tourism on the decline?
It was a CO hub for a long time, mainly to serve the military and Japanese tourists. Unfortunately the Japanese tourism hasn’t bounced back post-COVID.