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Old May 14, 2012 | 5:13 pm
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
NW established a reputation for keeping MSP and to some extent DTW as fortress hubs. I suspect that some airlines still believe that DL will aggressively match or undercut prices here until the newcomer is driven out.
For good reason. DL was relentless at destroying any newcomers that tried to enter CVG. In one case (when I was living there) a newcomer (think it was Frontier, but may have been Vanguard or AirTran) came to town & DL dropped fares below the competitor and put bigger aircraft on the routes until the interlopers left. Fares then went up above where they were before.
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