Rumor: United Airlines To Open Hub In Florida – View from the Wing

United Airlines has some of the best cities for premium passenger traffic as hubs: New York (Newark); Chicago; San Francisco; sort of Los Angeles; Houston; Washington Dulles; Denver. They’re strong in the biggest cities with the most business travel, however:

• Managed business travel, especially international and from San Francisco and New York, has lagged other categories post-Covid
• They’re largely in contested markets, even where they have a dominant position. They are stronger in Chicago than American, but American has a hub there as well. They face off with Delta for New York business. No one owns Los Angeles.

What United doesn’t have is the strong presence in the Southeast that Delta has (Atlanta) and American has (Charlotte and Miami). And aviation watchdog JonNYC passes along chatter from United’s internal leadership conference that the airline…