Well, we will clearly not agree..but the issue is not the number of airlines serving an airport... it is the overall number of seats, slots, etc.. The US Dept of Transport regards BA's position at LHR as dominant (less than 35% of the landing and take off slots). Curiously, they don't seem to have much to say about Delta's 60% position at Atlanta. For the record, I think both are dominant. LHR is at least beginning to be broken up and appears at last to be growth limited, which will increase competition from other London market airports and BA will be forced to give up further slots if the tie up with AA is to go ahead. Some effort to do the same at the fortress hubs is needed.
Your argument about prices on hub to hub routes where genuine competition on a direct route may exisit, compared to regional airport prices makes my point. The smaller regional airports flying into hubs and feeding the monsters pay over the odds. The hubs simply would not exist without being fed in this way, and they exploit their positions to gouge those passengers for who little or no choice exists.
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