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May 16, 2005, 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by formeraa
Hopefully, a combined airline could exploit US Airways' relative strength in the Midwest. Certainly, HP couldn't ever do it alone in Columbus!
What "relative strength in the midwest?" US has basically nothing there; they closed their Dayton hub in about 1990, Kansas City came and went in the mid 1990's, and they have downsized their Pittsburgh operation this year.
May 16, 2005, 4:50 pm
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Originally Posted by jeffhacker
What "relative strength in the midwest?" US has basically nothing there; they closed their Dayton hub in about 1990, Kansas City came and went in the mid 1990's, and they have downsized their Pittsburgh operation this year.
But, seriously, I was referring to US's fairly strong presence in many Midwest cities (airports, not hubs). While I know there have been cutbacks recently, up until a couple of years ago, US was the primary way to fly from Midwest cities to the East Coast (Boston/New York/Philly/Washington DC corridor).