{"id":219053,"date":"2025-05-18T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tale-2-airlines-importance-competition-shared-hubs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:00:16","slug":"a-tale-of-2-airlines-the-importance-of-competition-at-shared-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=219053","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of 2 Airlines: The Importance Of Competition At Shared Hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, legacy carriers in the United States will aim to target a few different markets where they will establish large hub facilities.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> and United Airlines are no exception to this rule, as each has a dedicated set of major legacy hubs across the country, and, for the most part, these systems do not really overlap. Airlines have a strong incentive to avoid competition at pretty much all costs, as having another airline operate a hub near your hub will traditionally result in an inability for either to dominate the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago-O&#8217;Hare is the best case study for this kind of competition.<\/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":[396,476,604,1003,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053","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=219053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219054,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053\/revisions\/219054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}