Which UA hub is the largest?
Oct 5, 2009, 6:40 pm
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Which UA hub is the largest?
I just visited LAX, DEN, SFO during a mileage run. I noticed that UA seems to own more gates at DEN than both LAX and SFO. Can anyone sort UA's five hubs according to number of flights operated per day? (including UX)
Oct 5, 2009, 6:56 pm
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ORD, DEN, SFO, and LAX are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Which would make IAD 5th.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,1966934.story
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172845432.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov...iness/fi-52721
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,1966934.story
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172845432.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov...iness/fi-52721
Oct 5, 2009, 7:18 pm
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Oct 5, 2009, 7:34 pm
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Pretty sure IAD is larger than LAX now. We have pulled a lot of capacity out of LAX, while building up IAD. I'm thinking it's ORD, DEN, SFO, IAD, LAX, SEA, NYC.
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Oct 5, 2009, 7:38 pm
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SEA ahead of NYC? We've lost a BUNCH of UA lift in SEA over the last couple of years.
Oct 5, 2009, 7:48 pm
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Methinks some have forgotten LAS on this list.
Oct 5, 2009, 7:50 pm
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SEA? NYC? LAS? Didn't the OP say hub?
Oct 5, 2009, 7:54 pm
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Oct 5, 2009, 8:32 pm
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Well, if you go to this thread from 2007 and scroll down to post #12, you can read the totals for all airports served by UA. At that time, the order of the top airports was: ORD, DEN, SFO, IAD, LAX, LAS, SEA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-domestic.html
Oct 5, 2009, 8:41 pm
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Oct 5, 2009, 8:51 pm
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LAS is a hub of sorts, considering the LAS-FAT UX flight... 
Oct 5, 2009, 9:02 pm
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I would bet that IAD has surpassed SFO.
Oct 6, 2009, 1:47 am
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IAD, LAX, and to a lesser extent SFO don't really do much of connecting traffic that DEN & ORD do, which is why those 2 are much larger. Look at the mainline flights to certain cities from each hub...IAD & LAX usually only have mainline to large important cities with high O&D and dont have very many what I consider "smaller, less popular destinatons" flown on UA metal. I understand this is due to there not being enough planes to go around, as many other routes could easily support mainline, but it does seem they reserve the planes they do have for top tier cities...with many being on the west coast.
IAD: BOS, BDL, SAN, MCO, SEA, PDX, PHX, LAS, TPA other UA hubs, with ABQ and RDU being odd balls in the mainline lineup...but I'm not complaining.
LAX: BOS, PHL, BDL, MCO, BWI, LAS, JFK, HNL, OGG, KOA, LIH.. PIT & MSY I considered odd ones, as I've never seen PIT being in the same league as these others and isn't MSY a low yield destination?
SFO is somewhat in between, not very much connecting hub and spoke traffic per se (except intra CA), but they do have some unique destinations IAD & LAX don't (SLC, AUS, MSP)
IAD: BOS, BDL, SAN, MCO, SEA, PDX, PHX, LAS, TPA other UA hubs, with ABQ and RDU being odd balls in the mainline lineup...but I'm not complaining.
LAX: BOS, PHL, BDL, MCO, BWI, LAS, JFK, HNL, OGG, KOA, LIH.. PIT & MSY I considered odd ones, as I've never seen PIT being in the same league as these others and isn't MSY a low yield destination?
SFO is somewhat in between, not very much connecting hub and spoke traffic per se (except intra CA), but they do have some unique destinations IAD & LAX don't (SLC, AUS, MSP)
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Oct 6, 2009, 4:14 am
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Are we talking about number of flights (probably easy to figure out with time and a timetable) or capacity (the above multiplied by number of available seats) or passengers (proprietary info)? If we are talking capacity, then SFO with its TPAC on 747s will be bumped up considerably, whereas DEN tends to have smaller aircraft.
Oct 6, 2009, 6:55 am
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I would think that IAD is larger than SFO as far as gates and pax.