How can relatively small cities, such as Charlotte and Salt Lake City, support a thriving airline hub?

I can understand why places like Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are major hub airports. They are generate a lot of origin/destination traffic and can also act as a transfer point. However, how do you explain relatively small metropolitan areas like Charlotte (2.1 million), Memphis (1.2 million), Salt Lake City (1 million) being able to sustain large airline hubs?How can relatively small cities, such as Charlotte and Salt Lake City, support a thriving airline hub?
The airlines do this on purpose!



It's actually an excellent marketing strategy. Forget dealing with arriving and departing customers and dedicated the whole operation to connections. Why deal with both at the same time?



Sure, there ARE people getting on and off in those cities, but porportionally, very few. If you have to connect, why deal with LAX or JFK? Yikes! What monster airports!!



Usuallly these airports have room so one airline can design a terminal to its own exacting needs, and those of their connecting customers.



I watched how it worked in Charlotte once, where a friend was working. Very impressive! Like a ballet, in they came, out they went...
Airlines use those hubs to connect people with the larger cities. It works. Salt Lake City is a hub of Delta and Delta uses SLC as a gateway of the West Coast for the East Coast people.How can relatively small cities, such as Charlotte and Salt Lake City, support a thriving airline hub?
Because US Airways changes a lot of its flights there. Charlotte is not really a small city any more, it is the 20th largest in the US.

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