They are also off in the extreme south west of the country. Thanks to distorted Mercator maps, and the great-circle routing, PHX and LAS make poor connecting points for anything other than Southern/Middle California going anywhere in the east. If PHX or LAS are never weather bound, why have both? Pure geography only. I've ridden HP, and wasn't offended by their service offering. And my friends in many parts of the make frequent use of HP with happiness. Matthew On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > In a message dated 8/12/2003 8:26:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > mmontano@xxxxxxxxx writes: > > << A very faint echo of PHX for many cities. > > They are also only a few hundred miles away from each other >> > > Well, they are usually not weather bound, so what is the problem? >