I'm not in full agreement. La Guardia for AA is a special case. While not a connecting hub, AA provides extensive service to far-flung locales with ERJs and F100s (Toronto, Bangor ME, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, Fayetville AR.) It's much like DCA for US, or SEA for UAL/UAX. It's a 'concentration' point thing. Yes, the east coast US does have several airlines running 'shuttle' services between airports that are not their hubs (AA, DL, US), and outside of AA's ERJ usage to enter the market, these are established high-density routes, not 50 seater hops. Any examples?, I still can't think of a case where a large US airline use RJs to get passengers to bypass their hubs (or their competitors hubs as you noted.) UAL doesn't fly Omaha to Salt-Lake, by-passing DEN. AA doesn't fly Austin->Atlanta by passing DFW... I'm at a loss. Matthew On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 09:03 AM, Spagiola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > There are plenty of examples. eg American Eagle flying ERJ from > Arkansas > Regional (not a hub) to La Guardia (also not a hub) without going > through either > DFW, ORD, or STL (all AA hubs). > > Moreover, in many cases airlines use RJs to get passengers to bypass > their > competitors' hubs. > > Best regards, > Stefano >