DFW Airport Claims Top Spot: Now the Biggest Airline Hub With Most Departures [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • These milestones aren’t meaningful in and of themselves, but nonetheless highly interesting to note. Here’s the American Airlines Vice President of Network Planning, flagging that the airline’s largest hub is now the largest airline hub in the world based on number of flgiht departures.

  • Oy vey, Rio: “ALL hotels have beg bugs. They come in on guests. If I found a solo bed bug or casing in a clean room, I would report it and move on. This isn’t that. This is housekeeping only changing the top sheets between guests and failing to address underlying issues.”

  • Choice Privileges devalues the one good part of the program top rate goes from 55,000 to 87,000 points per night

  • Lufthansa offering to status match SAS EuroBonus elites with SAS leaving Star Alliance.

  • Chase cancelled his cards – and that’s why they rescinded a job offer 8 years later, too (NYT)

  • GHA’s new Titanium breakfast benefit now extends to Capella hotels

  • Life advice that applies well beyond the Charlotte Admirals Club

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Comments

  1. Chase canceled my credit cards, my bank accounts and my brokerage accounts with no real explanation. I am better off without such an unreliable company but the separation caused hundreds of dollars of losses.

  2. What Brian fails to tell you is what a sh*tshow it is when DFW gets storms…the effects reverberates throughout the entire system for days. DFW is the black hole where system recovery takes way too long because of the extreme concentration of flights in and out of there.

  3. @Steve
    Have you been to Atlanta?
    Dfw makes up 27% of AA’s hub capacity
    Atlanta is 36% for delta
    Dfw has problems, no doubt, when dfw gets more rain in a week than is normal for a year but nothing like the actual colossal meltdowns when delta gets an afternoon of thunderstorms.

  4. In Texas the passengers are named “Silas” and “Clem” , and eat ribs and hot sauce .

    In Atlanta the passengers are named “Jasper” and “Billy Bob” , and eat fried chicken with waffles .

  6. The above sign is wrong. American doesn’t have leaders, it has managers. Leaders implies leadership, something AA has been lacking since the merger.

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