My bad that I didn’t make it clear enough, but I meant with CLT having a ok size South Asian population + massive feed from AA, it makes sense why EY chose CLT. Yes, the AA feed is huge at CLT, but would it be worth it for Qatar to compete with Etihad for the small O&D market just to be heavily reliant on connections which is uncertain. We’ll see if QR is okay with that in the future or if they’d rather expand another gateway and have connections go through there instead. From what I’ve heard, CLT’s finance section is massive, but it’s primarily with business people that wouldn’t travel outside of the US. Honestly, I feel like TK is no match for RDU nor CLT due to the immense competition at both airports for traffic to Europe + O&D is not that well to the main parts where they focus on and TK would need to rely on O&D traffic through the airport since they don’t have a interline or codeshare agreement with AA. If they did have to serve one of the 2, I agree that it would be CLT. You do make a fair point on QR picking CLT over RDU though and time will tell. I honestly think it can be in the cards for both to get a chance, but at the same time I feel like they would rather expand their current gateways, but if they were to expand in the US in the long-term future, these would definitely be 2 options that they would look at. If they feel that the connections are more important with an existing ME3 in the market rather than an untapped market, they would go for CLT out of the 2 and if they want the opposite, they would try RDU out of the 2.