Delta’s AUS hublet is already seeing some relatively “thick” connecting flows per 2024 Q2 DB1B data:
Here are all connecting flows through the DL AUS hub that averaged over 3 PDEW in that quarter mapped:
And here is the list:
Origin Dest PDEW
MFE ATL 10.0
MFE MCO 9.9
ATL MFE 9.2
MFE LAX 8.9
MCO LAS 8.8
ATL MAF 8.0
LAX MFE 7.7
MAF MCO 7.6
MCO MAF 7.5
MFE LAS 7.4
MAF ATL 7.4
MFE BNA 7.3
LAS MFE 7.3
MFE RDU 6.7
MCO MFE 6.5
BNA MFE 6.4
RDU MFE 6.4
JFK MFE 5.8
MAF MFE 5.5
MFE MAF 5.3
MFE JFK 5.1
MFE SEA 4.7
SEA MFE 4.7
BNA LAS 4.6
BOS MFE 4.3
MFE DTW 4.0
MFE BOS 3.8
LAX BNA 3.6
MAF LAX 3.5
DTW MFE 3.4
MFE MSP 3.3
BNA SEA 3.2
RDU MAF 3.2
JFK MAF 3.0
With IND, SFO, MEM, MSY, and ECP starting this coming spring we’ll expect to see lots of these cities to MAF/MFE/HRL on the top connecting flow list next year as AUS serves as the sole and/or primary gateway to these latter airports for DL for most of the country.
DL is still in 3rd place in terms of domestic O/D traffic (PDEW) as of that quarter at AUS, but within 10% of second placed AA:
WN 9894.945055
AA 4775.054945
DL 4242.637363
UA 2675.384615
AS 1022.417582
G4 562.5274725
NK 504.9450549
B6 289.5604396
F9 280.2197802
99 165.8241758
HA 114.5054945
SY 12.30769231
