Originally Posted by remedy

Thanks for this sobering advice. I had pretty much decided to try to stay with NW, since I fly alot to AMS (though US does too through PHL). I had some bad experience in the end with HP during their late hub years at CMH and switched from them to NW a few years ago with a elite challenge. How is flying in the western part of the country and to asia out of PHX given the fact that all of the hubs are (way) east of Phoenix? I did ask about experience with Alaska airlines on this board a few weeks ago to see if that helps.