fortress hub造句

• These fortress hubs stifle competition and gouge customers.
• The majors are now network carriers, with several hubs instead of one fortress hub.
• Like a growing number of big-city airports, DIA had become a " fortress hub . " American had Dallas.
• Delta has fortress hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Ohio and Salt Lake City, and a hub at Dallas-Fort Worth.
• Pittsburgh International was the fortress hub of US Airways from 1952 to 2005 with over 500 daily departures to more than 110 destinations in 2000.
• Small, start-up carriers have been complaining for years about the major airlines'tactics at their " fortress hub " airports.
• Pittsburgh, of course, is a fortress hub of US Airways, which entered bankruptcy proceedings in August after making major cutbacks in routes and staffing.
• BWI is a focus city for Southwest Airlines, and is the second largest airport by number of departures for that airline after fortress hub for Southwest.
• Airlines also gave up fighting competitors at their " fortress hubs, " where the only way to lure travelers was through profit-sapping fare wars.
• In another manifestation of their new-found conservatism, many airlines have retreated to their so-called fortress hubs, where they can dominate the local market.
• These small carriers allege big airlines have used their market clout at " fortress hub " airports to unfairly crush competition through a variety of alleged unlawful practices.
• What corporate travel agents, businesses and many communities are most concerned about are the so-called fortress hubs at key airports around the United States that are dominated by the large carriers.
• In the last five years, most of the major airlines have solidified their holds on so-called fortress hubs in cities like Denver and Detroit, where they face little or no major competition.
• JetBlue used the noise ordinance to make Long Beach Airport a miniature fortress hub, but it quickly reached capacity and has since had to rework flight schedules and direct growth to other Los Angeles area airports.
• But consumer advocates are becoming more critical of the arrangements, which they say could limit competition by allowing carriers to carve up fortress hub airports, give carriers greater leverage over setting prices and cause consumer confusion.
• Virtually all the skyrocketing fares fall into one of three categories : fares on thinly traveled routes; fares to " fortress hub " airports dominated by a single carrier; and unrestricted fares, which few people pay.
• Detroit Metropolitan Airport to the north, Port Columbus International Airport to the southeast, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to the east are the major or fortress hub " for Delta Air Lines and offers both domestic and international flights.
• Some airline executives argue that having three truly national carriers competing head to head in every city would be an improvement on the situation today in which the six airlines have hegemony over so-called fortress hubs at major metropolitan airports.
• "This is the first intervention by major corporations to lower costs and provide some competition at a fortress hub, " said Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, a corporate advocate who helped broker the agreement.
• A few big carriers have entrenched themselves at " fortress hubs " _ as United has done at Denver, Northwest Airlines at Detroit and Delta Air Lines at Atlanta _ where they control as much as 80 percent of all flights.