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Old Oct 13, 2020, 7:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Herb687
Due to exactly the point I made multiple times here. CLT is a smaller local market and has much less local premium demand. But it's a fortress hub by any reasonable metric. If there is any commonly accepted definition of "fortress hub" (and, as far as I know, there isn't one) it would certainly be tied to market share and pricing power and have absolutely nothing to do with how easy it is for someone to score an upgrade.Let's just say I am VERY familiar with it.
If you want to be draconian on such matter, there is no set definition of a fortress hub and as such, if I'm making a general comment about upgrades, I'm not obligated to use the term "fortress hub" in the precise way that you definite it or find it acceptable to be defined. Cheers.
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