View Poll Results: When Delta/NWA merge, which base closses first.
Salt Lake City
6
4.92%
Memphis
66
54.10%
Cincinnati
37
30.33%
Detroit
9
7.38%
Seattle
4
3.28%
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When Delta/NWA merge, which base closes first?
02-20-2008, 07:37 AM
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Remember SLC sits at 4200 feet, density altitude can soar in the summer time. Might be a problem for trans-oceanic-flights, which, by the way, Paris will be the first attempt at a regularly scheduled trans-continental flight out of SLC.
I really don't see SLC becoming a major international hub, although it does hold its value as a regional hub. It held out over DFW in the last round of Delta base closure debates. For the same reason, I don't see hubs in MSP and MEM posing a threat to SLC. SEA and LAX have different roles, primarily international gateways, not the domestic regional feed role that SLC plays.
If they were to put Delta's western regional hub in LAX, heaven help them, it would be worse than the F and G concourses in ORD.
I really don't see SLC becoming a major international hub, although it does hold its value as a regional hub. It held out over DFW in the last round of Delta base closure debates. For the same reason, I don't see hubs in MSP and MEM posing a threat to SLC. SEA and LAX have different roles, primarily international gateways, not the domestic regional feed role that SLC plays.
If they were to put Delta's western regional hub in LAX, heaven help them, it would be worse than the F and G concourses in ORD.
02-20-2008, 07:39 AM
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