Yeah, when the merger had one airline controlling ATL, CVG, and MEM (all relatively close to each other) and MEM really isn't that big in the first place, cuts are bound to happen. I predict Memphis will end up like Milwaukee. Frontier (which bought Midwest) has basically pulled out of MKE as a hub, and Southwest/AirTran has taken over. Geographically, Delta has little benefit from MEM and if Southwest has any expansion there beyond their legacy AirTran route they could very quickly drive DL out. Yes, WN has BNA, but they're more of a point-to-point network than they are hub-and-spoke, so they could probably work around that a bit better.
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