While it may not be a “hub” in the strictest sense of the word, I submit that a strong argument could be made for MCO as a hub for Delta (DL), Southwest (WN), and US Airways (US). True, many of these flights are on regional derivations of the mainline carrier, but miles and segments accrued still count toward each airlines FF program.
Delta (DL) Comair (C) Delta Express (DLE)
#Daily Non-Stops/ Carrier
Allentown, PA 1 DLE
Atlanta, GA 17 DL
Birmingham, AL 3 C
Boston, MA 9 DLE
Cincinnati, OH 5 DL 1 C
Columbus, OH 3 C
Dallas, TX 3 DL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 7 C
Ft. Myers, FL 6 C
Greensboro, NC 3 C
Hartford, CT 5 DLE
Indianapolis, IN 3 DLE
Islip Long Island, NY 2 DLE
Kansas City, MO 3 DLE
Key West, FL 5 C
Las Vegas, NV 1 DL
Los Angeles, CA 3 DL
Louisville, KY 2 DLE
Miami, FL 6 C
Nashville, TN 2 DLE
New Orleans, LA 4 C
Newark, NJ 6 DLE
New York City, NY (LGA) 8 DL
(JFK) 4 DLE
Pensacola, FL 5 C
Providence, RI 2 DLE
Raleigh/Durham, NC 3 DLE
Slat Lake City, UT 3 DL
Tampa, FL 2 C
Washington DC (Dulles) 5 DLE
West Palm Beach, FL 5 C
Total Number of Daily Non-Stops 138
US Airways (US), Metrojet (M), USAIR Express (USE)
Albany, NY 1 M
Allentown, PA 1 US
Baltimore, MD 7 M
Boston, MA 4 M
Buffalo, NY 1 US
Charlotte, NC 10 US
Ft. Walton Beach, FL 2 USE
Harrisburg, PA 1 US
Hartford, CT 3 M
Jacksonville, FL 1 USE
Miami, FL 5 USE
Naples, FL 1 USE
New York City, NY (LGA) 5 M
Panama City, FL 3 USE
Philadelphia, PA 11 US
Pittsburgh, PA 12 US
Providence, RI 1 M
Rochester, NY 1 M
Syracuse, NY 2 M
Tallahassee, FL 5 USE
Washington DC (Dulles) 2 US
2 M
(National) 3 US
Total Number of Daily Non-Stops 84
Southwest (WN)
Albany, NY 2 WN
Albuquerque, NM 2 WN
Austin, TX 1 WN
Baltimore, MD 7 WN
Birmingham, AL 1 WN
Buffalo, NY 1 WN
Chicago, IL (Midway) 3 WN
Columbus, OH 1 WN
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 10 WN
Hartford, CT 2 WN
Houston, TX (Hobby) 2 WN
Indianapolis, IN 2 WN
Islip Long Island, NY 2 WN
Kansas City, MO 4 WN
Las Vegas, NV 1 WN
Louisville, KY 1 WN
Manchester, NH 1 WN
Nashville, TN 6 WN
New Orleans, LA 7 WN
Phoenix, AZ 2 WN
Providence, RI 4 WN
San Antonio, TX 1 WN
St. Louis, MO 3 WN
West Palm Beach, FL 4 WN
Total Number of Daily Non-Stops 68
Delta- In the 1980’s and early 1990’s MCO was really a true hub for Delta. Mainline non-stop service was available to over 30 destinations including a daily non-stop to Paris (I can’t remember if it was CDG or ORY) and two daily non-stops to Frankfurt. MCO currently has, without doubt, Delta’s best Crown Room Club
US Airways- The pending merger of United and US Airways will be interesting for MCO. United currently has 25 daily mainline non-stop flights serving LAX, SFO, DEN, ORD, IAD, and MIA. A merged United/US Airways could be poised to overcome Delta as MCO’s largest carrier.
Southwest- Serves 24 cities with nearly 140 daily non-stop departures and arrivals (impressive considering WN didn’t even serve MCO 8 years ago). They recently established a major crew base at MCO and appear to be on the verge of another growth period.
If you used an even looser definition of a "hub" airline as one that serves more cities with non-stop service than just their traditional hubs then as noted above you could include United (daily non-stop service to LAX/SFO/DEN/ORD/IAD/MIA)and American (daily non-stop service to LAX/DFW/ORD/MIA/BOS/LGA/SJU/SAO plus STL/JFK with the TWA acuisition)
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Oh maaan. Anything but a 737.
[This message has been edited by anrkitec (edited 03-17-2001).]