United Increases Its Loyalty Dominance at Denver

In the hub-and-spoke game of legacy airlines, frequent flyers living in a hub city are often forced into loyalty to the carrier that calls the airport home. In Detroit, for example, most passengers who don't want to connect through Chicago or Atlanta fly on Delta. In Charlotte, it's American. And among other airports that United calls home, Denver is one of its biggest hubs. Now the prominence of Denver as a hub city for United is really starting to come into focus. At last Thursday's Morgan Stanley 7th Annual Laguna Conference in Dana Point, California, United President Scott Kirby shared that the carrier was doubling down in Denver as a hub city. As Skift Senior Aviation Business Editor Brian Sumers reported, just recently the carrier was operating 360 flights daily out of the Mile