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Originally Posted by kbud
I know AA’s mega hub is DFW but I’m just surprised AA can’t keep Beijing going from ORD. Dallas is not geographically better than ORD to Asia. I sure hope they don’t pull the plug on Shanghai from ORD too.
United makes sense on the route with Star Alliance on both ends. Hainan doesn’t have feed at ORD and they don’t have a large presence in Beijing compared to Air China. Unfortunately this is the same story for AA internationally out of ORD for the last 15 years. They only seem to sustain on routes that connect to One World hubs. (LHR, NRT and I guess Barcelona has Iberia?)
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AA's DFW hub is about TWICE as big as AA's ORD hub. There are simply more connection opportunities. Also, there is no competition with DFW-PEK - unlike ORD. ORD is uniquely located to be both a great hub domestically and to Europe and Asia. It's no coincidence.