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[iquit]

Currently there is an artificial prerequisite that you need to control at least 5 gates / terminals, which bares no essence with the abundance cash. The suggestion is, the airport has to carry at least 20% of your total passengers before you can open a hub there. Any better criteria?

[Ryan_D96]

So you can only open a maximum of five hubs? 

[SkyMandalorian]

Probably he means that you need to have 20% of the passengers on airport to be able to open a hub. That isn't a good idea because the small airlines can't open a hub at big airports like SYD, ATL, LHR and many others.

[Stevphfeniey]

So if 50 people all decide they want to hub at ORD and only control 2% of the traffic there each, that means nobody can have a hub? Seems stupid.

[Stevphfeniey]

What you're proposing is just as arbitrary as the system currently in place. It's just that the criteria are tweaked (and in a way more difficult to overcome unless you have the boundless resources you're complaining about). 

[iquit]

So you can only open a maximum of five hubs? 

Theoretically 10 if all are equally distributed hub to hub traffic; but you don't need to maintain 20% once opened, so you can still reduce traffic for existing hubs to facilitate building new ones. It won't prohibit infinite hubs, just make it harder; this is a quick fix which doesn't have to wait for AE4.

[5280_Av8r]

Theoretically 10 if all are equally distributed hub to hub traffic; but you don't need to maintain 20% once opened, so you can still reduce traffic for existing hubs to facilitate building new ones. It won't prohibit infinite hubs, just make it harder; this is a quick fix which doesn't have to wait for AE4.

This keeps small airlines from opening hubs at the bigger airports. This stops them from receiving many connecting pax. Not a good idea.