re: What airline do you fly and why?

Mostly American. Home airport is BTR.

1) They ditched the CRJ-200 and ERJ-145 from their DFW-BTR route. UA also ok, but Delta still has a few of these flying torture chambers on their BTR-ATL routes.

2) I prefer DFW to ATL or IAH as a hub. At DFW the Baton Rouge flights are all arriving at terminal E now (at the East side of the airport), so taxi times is are shorter. Plus the tram stops twice per terminal instead of just once. Usually there will be a restaurant within 2 gates of where you’re flying instead of ATL where they’re concentrated at that center island of the terminal.

3) If DFW has issues, have the possibility of rerouting through CLT

4) One stop to everywhere in Asia, on UA or DL would have to two-stop it. But, DL is more convenient to Europe.