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UA's Former MCO Hub

TLHFLA From United States of America, joined May 2003, 584 posts, RR: 1
Posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1753 times:

In the early 90's didn't UA consider MCO a small hub? Besides the flights that remain today (ORD, DEN, SFO, LAX and IAD), where else did they fly to from MCO?

Bill in ATL

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IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1740 times:

UA flew to some Florida cities from MCO in the early 1990s, but as far as I know MCO was never a sizeable operation for them... it was always such for EA and DL, though.

N777UA From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1739 times:

It may have been a "focus city", but it was never a hub. They had a much larger operation at Miami.

STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16320 posts, RR: 52
Reply 3, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1711 times:

They flew to EWR, LGA, DCA and BOS aswell as DEN, IAD, ORD, LAX, SFO.

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Shawn Patrick From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2588 posts, RR: 18
Reply 4, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1680 times:

Not too long ago, they used to have some pretty good capacity in MCO. 763 to DEN, ORD, LAX at various times if my memory is correct. Now they've scaled back. Well, they've scaled everything back.

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MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6251 posts, RR: 51
Reply 5, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1657 times:

They flew MCO-MSY with a 733 for a short while.

Steve in N.O

Lymanm From Canada, joined Jan 2001, 1133 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1648 times:

"Well, they've scaled everything back."

Understatement of the year, hehehe

buhh bye

GroundStop From United States of America, joined Jun 2003, 611 posts, RR: 6
Reply 7, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1643 times:

At one point in the early 90's, United Express (ACA) operated several J32's out of MCO to RSW, PBI, and a few others I'm forgetting.

JP

Cre From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 187 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (9 years 12 months 2 days ago) and read 1531 times:

UA also flew MCO-MKE during that time, but it only lasted a short while.

Atcboy73 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 1100 posts, RR: 3
Reply 9, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1515 times:

I remember the UA mini hub at MCO but cant remember where they flew to. I do remember the schedules were set up for connections.
I think this was like 1990, 91 or 92.

Ord From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 1370 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1513 times:

Miami was never as large as the Orlando mini-hub in terms of flights. I believe at its high point Miami had about 30 daily departures. Orlando at its peak had about 50.

Falcon Flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 1294 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1480 times:

I always thought moving the South American flights from Miami to Orlando would have been a smart move. Keeps them away from AA and would allow the possibility of expansion.

My definition of cool ? Not trying so hard to be cool.

Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 9
Reply 12, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1458 times:

They flew to all the cities listed above plus most major cities in Florida. And they did it with 757's. 757's nonstop from MCO to MIA/TPA/FLL and PBI!

MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31156 posts, RR: 76
Reply 13, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1394 times:

I always thought moving the South American flights from Miami to Orlando would have been a smart move. Keeps them away from AA and would allow the possibility of expansion.

Yeah, except there is absolutley no business traffic and yields would be horrendous. Like AA's failed MCO-GRU experiment, UA doing Orlando-LatAm would never have lasted more than a few months. Until then, United still has a 737-500 flying MIA-MCO daily to connect to Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Sao Paulo.

HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7
Reply 14, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1363 times:

**I always thought moving the South American flights from Miami to Orlando would have been a smart move. Keeps them away from AA and would allow the possibility of expansion.**

Keep in mind the market for Latin American flights. Orlando has a decent sized South American population, but no where near that of Miami. Orlando's largest Latin American population is Puerto Rican which is served multiple times daily by AA and ATA flying to Puerto Rico. I just don't think there would be much demand for a MCO to Buenos Aires or Santiago like there would in Miami. At most they could possibly fill up a A320 on 3x weekly flights. COPA only flies here 4X weekly on a 73G

Ord From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 1370 posts, RR: 1
Reply 15, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1349 times:

DC-10s were also used on the intra-Florida flights. I was on a DC-10 from MCO-FLL on a few occasions.

Ualisthebst From United States of America, joined May 2001, 79 posts, RR: 3
Reply 16, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1331 times:

Believe it or not, United did fly MCO-MDW for a while in the late 80's as well.

I think that was my last flight in a 727-100.
-Ualisthebst

TLHFLA From United States of America, joined May 2003, 584 posts, RR: 1
Reply 17, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1229 times:

I remember in the early 90's, UA served SRQ with a 757 flight to MCO. I believe that flight continued from MCO to IAD. UA does not serve SRQ anymore.

Bill in ATL

Flyboy7974 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1540 posts, RR: 2
Reply 18, posted (9 years 12 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1226 times:

on weekends back in the late 80's, ua use to fly DC-10s to phl, ewr, bos and bdl, flight numbers in the 1980-1990 range signifying weekend only service.

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