Originally Posted by
senatorgirth
According to the "Airport Planning & Development Handbook" by Paul Dempsey, "Continental reached its high water mark of 285 flights per day (including Continental Express) at Denver" in 1992. I believe that in the 1970's CO operated 747's and DC-10's between Denver and ORD, and between Denver and LAX.
Ah, the good ol' days...widebodies on domestic routes....tell me again what happened to Pan Am?
285 flights/day? I would say that's not representative of a "focus city"...that's a major hub. I wonder what the int'l traffic looked like? I know that Stapleton was cramped, but I wonder if UA tok some of those landing slots? Since the statistic above is from 1992, and I know that DIA opened soon thereafter...so this might not even be an issue.