{"id":248368,"date":"2025-07-09T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-happened-to-delta-air-lines-memphis-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:00:17","slug":"what-happened-to-delta-air-lines-memphis-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=248368","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Delta Air Lines\u2019 Memphis Hub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255404\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/memphis-international-airport\/\"  >Memphis International Airport<\/a><\/span> (MEM) is today a FedEx Express hub, sometimes referred to as the FedEx Superhub, but it also used to be a significant hub for Northwest and then Delta Air Lines. Today, the airport is the world&#8217;s second-busiest cargo hub, but its days as a major passenger hub are long behind it. Not all airports get continuously busier over time, as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"9443\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/memphis-airport-history\/\" >the rise and fall of Memphis International bears witness to<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Delta terminated the hub at Memphis, the airport became more of a regional airport while still being a massive cargo hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,565,767,4436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-hub","category-memphis-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248369,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248368\/revisions\/248369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}