This weekend, United Airlines announced it was cutting roughly 60 percent of its departures from Cleveland, beginning this spring. The move effectively eliminates United’s hub at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Yesterday, city officials gave their official response to the news, doing their best to put a positive spin on it. We hear a report from Brian Bull of WCPN, a Here & Now contributor station.
In 2003, St. Louis was in much the same position that Cleveland is in now. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks to Juli Niemann of Smith Moore and Company in St. Louis about what Cleveland can learn from St. Louis. And Seth Kaplan of Airline Weekly joins them with an update on what hub closures could follow the merger of American and U.S. Airways.
Reporter
- Brian Bull, reporter for WCPN in Cleveland, Ohio. He tweets @bcbull.
Guests
- Seth Kaplan, managing partner of the industry trade publication Airline Weekly.
- Juli Niemann, financial analyst with Smith Moore and Company in St. Louis, Mo.
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