Originally Posted by
trvlr70
I think it is interesting and telling that AA.chooses to fly to destinations like Athens and Venice from ORD and PHL rather than the big hubs where there are 2 to 3 times the number of connecting passengers. There must be real value to the O&D passengers and perhaps AA isn’t abandoning the cities.
Huh? PHL is AA’s big hub to Europe due to its obvious geographic advantage over other AA hubs without strong slot or gate constraints. If DFW were AA’s main hub to Europe, 1/3 of the country by area and well over half the country by population would have to backtrack a long way.