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[MacPhal]

Lets say we have two airlines in the same alliance flying out of the same airport. (Airline A, Airline B ) If Airline A builds a hub does Airline B have to build one so its pax's can connect onto Airline A's flights? Or is Airline A's hub good for all alliance airlines in that airport?

[LJ Aviation]

As long as one member of the alliance has a hub at a certain airport, all alliance members can get connection passengers from it.

[Book Siberia]

If both Airline A and Airline B have hubs at the same airport, AND both Airlines are in the same alliance, then the number of connecting passengers available to each expands significantly more and at a faster rate for routes having that airport as one of the endpoints.

 

There are 3 takeaways from this:

1) Join an alliance which has as many members in your chosen home country as possible, because you maximize overlapping hub count opportunities.

2)  The more members there are that hubify a particular airport, the greater is the mass effect relative to connecting passengers.  (This is why you see a large number of airlines with tons of flights on the same route.)

3) Technically, if everyone joined the exact same alliance, then the shared hub benefits would be maximal - i.e., couldn't be any higher, and would be shared/accessible to all players equally.  Of course, people being who they are, that'll probably never happen. (But it would be very interesting for sure!)