Sentence examples for big hub from inspiring English sources

So it was really a big hub for manufacturing.

"Albany has become a big hub," Ms. Curtis said.

It will also consider whether London truly requires a single big hub.

When a problem hits a big hub, it ripples out through the network.

Delta operates a big hub in Cincinnati and Northwest a big hub in Detroit, so one of those could be scaled back, probably Cincinnati.

Denver, a big hub for United Airlines, has no Southwest departures.

Representative James L. Oberstar, a Minnesota Democrat and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, opposes mergers among big hub-and-spoke airlines as anticompetitive.

Among the criticisms: the big hub-and-spoke carriers like United, American, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines failed to reduce their capacity enough; failed to control their labor costs; and wasted money long before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by buying back their own shares at what turned out to be inflated prices.

"We risk paralyzing the big hubs".

Big airlines are increasingly concentrating their services at big hubs, a strategy that offers many cost-saving efficiencies.

The liberalisation of air travel has increased competition between big hubs, especially in Europe and the Gulf.