AA considers (and operates) LAX as a hub, though it has an incredible amount of O&D traffic that such a flight might look like it. I'm still looking for an example where a major N.A. airline is using RJs to bypass 'congested airport hubs' (LAX is a tad 'congested' to some.) I guess it's more of getting back to folks ongoing comments about how the press fill white space and don't really check their facts and assertions. Of course, this is true for many other industries as well. matthew On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 09:41 PM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > In a message dated 7/18/03 7:58:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > mmontano@xxxxxxxxx writes: > >>> Several of North America's largest airlines have used >>> regional jets to bypass congested airport hubs and >>> offer rapid point-to-point service between mid-sized cities. > > You are absolutely right. They are not bypassing hubs. The only > cases I can > think of are where they give small-mid sized cities more non-stops to > non-hub > big cities. I can think of the new Eagle Flight CRJ700 from LAX to > Whatever > the code for Northwest Arkansas is >