Originally Posted by
moondog
1. The "hub" concept doesn't really exist in China. CA might be based in Beijing and MU might be based in SH, but VERY few people use these airports for connecting flights.
2. CX really, really doesn't want HU in OW.
to reply to your point:
1, Air China has a hub in Beijing and China Eastern has a hub (or two in fact) in Shanghai. Both have a sizeable of int-dom transit passengers number, even in Chinese terms. So is China Southern, which has a hub in Guangzhou, a focus city strategy (had the plan for a hub in Beijing but their A380 strategy was damaged by CAAC) in Beijing. You said very few people use these airport for connecting flights, that is not true. Beijing and Shanghai has one of the highest transit passengers number in China. You are confused with the idea of US domestic hub (i.e. Dallas/Denver) and a transportation hub (i.e. Frankfurt/Paris) that has a mixture of int-dom passengers.
2, There is no evidence suggest CX doesn't want HU in oneworld. This has been a fantasy of bloggers for years. But no hard evidence. CX has never said they don't want HU. They may have expressed concerns about HU. There is a big difference between the two.