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Old Sep 11, 2019 | 9:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. BoH
I totally disagree with this. My airport has direct flights to ~170 destinations, ~140 of which are AA only. If that is not the definition of "hub captive", I don't know what is.

To OP: For the EU cancellations, I hope you collecting lots of free money under EC261.
Again - I fly AA out of DEN. UA certainly offers far more nonstop flights out of DEN than the 8 destinations that the combination of AA+BA does. I don't choose to be "captive" to UA's DEN hub. Most of the time I fly AA - and take a connection. Sometimes I fly WN or DL or UA when that makes sense. Sometimes the destination requires a connection no matter what airline I fly. But the vast majority of my flights on AA.

You choose to fly the the directs AA offers out of your hub airport - even thought there are (connecting) alternatives available. You've made the - probably logical - choice to fly the most direct, convenient routings.

No such thing as "Hub captive"
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