8herveg From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2006, 1107 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 12881 times:
Could someone please tell me which are Delta's main hubs?
I know Atlanta and Cincinnati are. How do they compare to New York JFK?
What about Dallas? I didnt realise it was a hub. I thought it was more for American Airlines. If it is, do you think it could offer a service to Gatwick?
And Salt Lake City? What about Fort Lauderdale?
If someone could rank them for me it would be greatly appreciated!
Litz From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1745 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 12867 times:
Dallas used to be a major (and I mean major) hub for DL ... they closed and dehubbed DFW as part of their reorganization.
Now, it's pretty much ATL, CVG, and SLC for major hubs.
Growing fast are JFK and LAX, as launching points for their respective international flights.
(most, if not all, of the south american flights launch from ATL)
I would not be surprised to see more flights out of BOS too.
Those days are long gone. There are three flights a day to LGW, AA offering 2 and BA offering the other. AA operates a 763 and 777. BA operates a 777. AA was just to strong at DFW for Delta to keep a hub there.
WesternA318 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 5395 posts, RR: 25 Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 12816 times:
Yanno, I just read somehting about LAX in their 1987 and 1988 Annual Reports after the merger with Western. They never said LAX was supposed to be a hub, it was always a focus-city, lol. Now I can see why there hasnt been a huge explosion of new stuff out of there until recently.
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NewYorkCityBoi From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 193 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12802 times:
Here:
1) Atlanta (Both International and Domestic)
2) Cincinnati (Few International and Domestic)
3) JFK (about the same amout of International as Altanta, small domestic but growing)
4) Salt Lake (Domestic, few international to Canada, and rumors about CDG)
Commavia From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 10193 posts, RR: 62 Reply 7, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12762 times:
Quoting 8herveg (Thread starter): Could someone please tell me which are Delta's main hubs?
Delta's most important hub, by far, is Atlanta. Atlanta has more seats to more places than any other airline hub -- for any airline -- on earth. Beyond that, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City and JFK are also strong hubs, with the first two being major domestic connecting points and JFK being less domestic focused and more tied to international flying to Europe.
Quoting 8herveg (Thread starter): I know Atlanta and Cincinnati are. How do they compare to New York JFK?
Both are bigger. Atlanta is huge, JFK doesn't even come close. Cincinnati has far, far more flights each day but most are on RJs. Even still, though, Cincinnati is still a larger hub by far than JFK.
Quoting 8herveg (Thread starter): What about Dallas? I didnt realise it was a hub. I thought it was more for American Airlines. If it is, do you think it could offer a service to Gatwick?
Dallas was a hub until last January. Delta left because they had no chance of competing up against AA at their home base, where Delta has far fewer flights to far fewer cities with far fewer planes. As for Gatwick, no, Delta never flew from D/FW to Gatwick nonstop, however they did have a flight from D/FW to Frankfurt when they had the hub there (inhereted from Pan Am) in the early 1990s.
A big and growing hub in the west. This one is a shocker to many, as there were rumors for years going around that SLC was weak and dying and Delta was going to leave. Turns out, after D/FW was shut down, SLC apparently became much more important to Delta as essentially the company's only network link to many western and mountain communities.
More a focus city with lots of seats going to the hubs and other focus cities, although capacity there has been cut significantly of late with the pull-down in RJ flying and the paring of capacity in lower-yielding Florida routes while resources (planes) are being shifted to higher-yield domestic and international markets from hubs like Atlanta.
Quoting 8herveg (Thread starter): If someone could rank them for me it would be greatly appreciated!
Based on size (number of weekly seats), I believe the current ranking is:
1) Atlanta (no doubt about this one)
2) Salt Lake City
3) Cincinnati (most of the capacity is RJs)
4) New York JFK
WesternA318 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 5395 posts, RR: 25 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12762 times:
Quoting Commavia (Reply 7): Delta's most important hub, by far, is Atlanta. Atlanta has more seats to more places than any other airline hub -- for any airline -- on earth.
In DL's eyes, its been this way since at least the mid-60's when ATL came very close to beating ORD/MDW.
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1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5770 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12762 times:
Quoting Commavia (Reply 7): 1) Atlanta (no doubt about this one)
2) Salt Lake City
3) Cincinnati (most of the capacity is RJs)
4) New York JFK
I believe that CVG is still larger than SLC, but SLC has more mainline flights.
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Tys777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 403 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12730 times:
what about MCO? i know alot of southern cities have direct service to there, or would it qualify more as a large focus city?
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Bnamaxx From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12722 times:
I don't recall BA (or BCal before them) ever doing a double daily out of DFW, aside from the 3x weekly Concorde service via IAD in the 80's after the BN experiment in the 70s.
RwSEA From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 3017 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12722 times:
Hubs (In Order): ATL .................... CVG, SLC, JFK
Focus Cities: FLL, MCO, TPA, LAX, CMH, BOS, LGA
In the past couple of years, FLL and MCO have shrunk somewhat, while LAX has seen increases.
As others have mentioned, DL finally axed DFW in January of 2005. However, prior to that point, the hub was shrinking for quite some time.
Quoting 8herveg (Reply 6): Where do Delta fly to from FLL & LAX?
Don't know about FLL off the top of my head but from LAX they currently fly to:
ATL, JFK, SLC, CVG, LGA, BOS, HNL, OGG, RDU, CMH, BDL, CUN, FLL, GDL,ZIH, FLL, MCO, TPA.
Many new LAX flights are coming this winter, however - see DL's website for more info on that.
TWAL1011727 From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 597 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12681 times:
Quoting Commavia (Reply 7): Even still, though, Cincinnati is still a larger hub by far than JFK.
CVG only has 8 more mains than JFK so its really not that much bigger.
RJs - way different story.
NewYorkCityBoi From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 193 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12663 times:
Quoting Commavia (Reply 7): Based on size (number of weekly seats), I believe the current ranking is:
1) Atlanta (no doubt about this one)
2) Salt Lake City
3) Cincinnati (most of the capacity is RJs)
4) New York JFK
Well, I have been connected at SCL few times and I saw they have less than 10 flights a day on 767. DL has flights from SLC to Moutain and West Coast, but to only Major hub/cities in the east.
While JFK has about 30 European flights and Atlanta/Cincy flight with 767. West Coast flight (LAX, SFO, SEA, SLC, SAN..) and Latin by 757, and the rest are mostly smaller planes. SO I think in term of passenger, JFK must be comparable to Salt Lake. (I know ATL is way bigger DL Hub)
About the FLL, in 2006, DL has flights from FLL to LAX, SLC, LAS, MCO, ATL, BOS, LGA, JFK?, CVG, BDL, BHM, PNS, CMH, RDU. And I think DL flies out from MCO more than FLL
SESGDL From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3385 posts, RR: 11 Reply 15, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 12643 times:
Wow, DL's down to 531 daily mainline flights at ATL?!? I suppose this was higher in the summer. Last summer they had 670! That's quite a decrease. But that's what retiring 3 aircraft types and bankruptcy does.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 12477 times:
Quoting SESGDL (Reply 15): But that's what retiring 3 aircraft types and bankruptcy does.
Primarily the latter. This September, DL is cutting way more capacity than last year, with lots of flights only operating 4-5x times weekly which last year would have been daily. Of course, loadfactors will improve as a result of that, plus alot of maintenance will be done this month, in whatever shape or form.
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