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Old 08-22-2018, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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How so? Do you think O & D traffic don't matter to a hub? Why do you think Delta was so opposed to open another airport in the metro?


Please don't put words in my mouth with such a directed question. I never said O&D traffic doesn't matter to a hub. This is your typical argument style of over-playing out little things. I can't tell if you have internal logic issues that lead to this or you just want to be unfair to everyone else's arguments all the time.

There are numerous cities about our size that have more than one commercial airport. Some are smaller and some are larger and they still have a functional hub airport with O&D traffic.

No one here has made an argument that 100% of ATL's O&D traffic needs to be redirected to other airports as your careless pointed question would make it seem.

Delta doesn't want another airport, because any other airport is likely to be O&D traffic only and would do more to benefit other carriers that mostly have O&D operations in in our region. Currently, they have a competitive advantage over other carriers via control of gates and new gate development at ATL. It is hard, although not impossible, to expand domestic operations in ATL for other carriers.
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Old 08-22-2018, 02:20 PM
 
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There are numerous cities about our size that have more than one commercial airport.
And none of them handle the volume of connecting & total passengers we do. Even the larger cities.

So, if you agree that O & D traffic does matter to a successful hub, how do you not think a second airport will hurt ATL's ability to function as a hub?
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Old 08-22-2018, 02:28 PM
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How so? Do you think O & D traffic don't matter to a hub? Why do you think Delta was so opposed to open another airport in the metro?
They were opposed because it would mean more competition and lower fares.

The second airport doesn't harm Atlanta at all as a hub because it is a Delta hub. If Delta isn't spreading itself out, there's no impact. Chicago has 2 airports, Dallas has 2 airports and LA has 5 and their main airport is a very big hub in each case.
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Old 08-22-2018, 02:30 PM
 
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They were opposed because it would mean more competition and lower fares.

The second airport doesn't harm Atlanta at all as a hub because it is a Delta hub. If Delta isn't spreading itself out, there's no impact. Chicago has 2 airports, Dallas has 2 airports and LA has 5 and their main airport is a very big hub in each case.
And ATL is busier than all them despite being a smaller metro.

ATL may still be a hub, but it will be a much smaller hub if O & D traffic gets pulled away from it.
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Old 08-22-2018, 02:36 PM
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And ATL is busier than all them despite being a smaller metro.

ATL may still be a hub, but it will be a much smaller hub if O & D traffic gets pulled away from it.
But why would it get pulled away?

Like they say, If you were flying Delta to hell, you would still have to transfer in Atlanta.
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Old 08-22-2018, 03:11 PM
 
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But why would it get pulled away?

Like they say, If you were flying Delta to hell, you would still have to transfer in Atlanta.
Because if there are not enough originating passengers in Atlanta that bought tickets to Hell they might as well connect you through one other their other hubs where the numbers work better.

ATL as a dominate hub in the Delta system is not a given. I flew from Columbia SC to Nashville TN years ago and had to connect in Cincinnati. Places like Cincinnati and Memphis have lost their a lot of their Delta connecting traffic to Atlanta in recent years but there is no reason that cannot reverse.
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Old 08-22-2018, 04:02 PM
 
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Dobbins is pretty large
I'm just saying that the area around it isn't deal to accommodate a commercial airport, even a secondary one.
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Old 08-22-2018, 06:01 PM
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I'm just saying that the area around it isn't deal to accommodate a commercial airport, even a secondary one.
Why not? It handles what was once a busy air force base.
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Old 08-22-2018, 06:20 PM
 
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[QUOTEWhy not? It handles what was once a busy air force base.][/quote]


It's not the same thing. You have personnel already at the base - people who work there.


It's not nearly as many people as consumers who would travel to a commercial airport.
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Old 08-22-2018, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Keep in mind, if there is even a small second commercial airport Atlanta will likely struggle to function as a number one hub. You need a certain amount of O & D local passengers to support connecting passengers and if local traffic at ATL starts getting split that calculus breaks down and the market starts becoming served by more point-to-point traffic.
Not necessarily. Major airports such as ORD, DFW, JFK, LAX, Miami, and others do just fine with secondary airports in the area.
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