As you have mentioned, several airlines have tried to use MCI as a hub. But USAir(ways) was not one of them. U never operated MCI as a hub or even a focus city. >From: "Shawn P. Stokes" >At MCI don't forget Eastern, Braniff II, and to some weaker extent >USAir(ways) > >I flew threw MCI once going to and from ICT on US 5 years back. As Nick >stated it is designed for O&D and walking right to the gate. As I recall >the >security stands were set up for a gate, or a couple of gates at a time, so >I >had to exit and enter security just to change planes between DCA and ICT. >That was 1999 and not too bad, I'd hate to do it today..... > >There are I thought 3 different terminals at MCI and WN was in a different >one. Maybe the others are laid out better ala DFW with central checkpoints >for the terminal. I sure hope so. > >Shawn > > >***America's Volunteer Firefighters, the best bargain in municipal >government*** > >-----Original Message----- >From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick >Laflamme >Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 AM >To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Show Me the black hole > >At 07:56 AM 9/8/2004 -0700, Clay Wardlow wrote: > >Why is Missouri such a black hole when it comes to hub operations at MCI > >or STL? > >Wasn't MCI carefully designed to keep all gates near the curb? That's great >for O&D traffic -- but deadly for hub traffic. DFW has the same design, but >the train among terminals helps some. > > >Aside from TWA/AA and Vanguard, what other airlines have tried to have > >major operations in the Show Me State? Why did they fail? > >Southwest has fairly major activities at STL. They would say that they >don't have any hubs, but STL might be one of their more-equal non-hubs. I >don't know how STL compares for LUV with MDW, BNA, PHX, or their other >non-hubs. But it can't be that bad -- it's not like SFO, which had so many >weather delays that they abandoned it in favor of OAK and SJC. > >Midwest (Express) tried for a while to build up operations at MCI, but I >haven't paid much attention to them for a while. They seemed to have enough >troubles besides any complications from trying to squeeze money out of MCI >-- or Omaha, one of their other experiments outside of MKE. > > >Clay - SEA > >Nick