Former Hubs
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San Jose Just Keeps Growing in a Straight Line
I’ve written a lot about American’s former hubs in recent posts of this series, but none of them can say they were…
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RDU Got (Its Terminal) Knocked Down and Then Got Up Again
Let’s talk about another brief American hub adventure, this time it’s the one in Raleigh/Durham. The airport built its first terminal in…
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Nashville Just Keeps Growing
Many of the airports I’ve covered in this ongoing series on former hubs have had to figure out how to shrink down…
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STL Tries to Finally Get Beyond TWA
Behold, the mighty St Louis Lambert International Airport! It’s a massive complex with four runways, more than 80 gates, a Boeing (formerly…
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Cincinnati and the Ghosts of Comair
If Memphis was Northwest’s way of getting geographically beyond its core hubs, Cincinnati did the same thing for Delta but in reverse.…
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The Incredible Shrinking MEM
Memphis has always been an airport that punched above its weight, but that all fell apart when Delta shut down the hub,…
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Cleveland’s Wild Airport Terminal Plan
After writing up Pittsburgh’s new terminal, I decided it would be fun to look at other former hubs to see just how…
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Pittsburgh Leaves Its Hub Past Behind With the New Terminal That Opens Today
When the PIttsburgh International Airport built its brand new terminal in the early 1990s, it was preparing for a future as a…
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Kansas City’s New Terminal Opens, Trading Gate Proximity for Making Everything Else Better
After a lengthy battle, the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport opened earlier this week. For years, proponents and opponents of…