Originally Posted by
PVDtoDEL
Not really - for example, when IT was about to join OW, AA was preparing to start routing their intra-India connections on IT instead of 9W. Then AA dropped DEL, so it didn't matter anyway.
There are other examples of this as well.
That is one example, specific to one situation; there are far more examples to the contrary.
I suppose this definitive conclusion was arrived at by extrapolating?