As it becomes easier to run point-to-point services between widely spaced cities, hubs may become less important.
A mere 29 big-city hub airports now claim more than two-thirds of all passenger traffic.
While the city hub is presented as a wide open sandbox, it is in actual fact a series of environments separated by a bunch of loading screens.
What you're aiming for is to set up robust local and regional economies that do not depend on the Westminster-City hub to sustain themselves".
As a business traveler, he learned that driving a little farther to an alternate airport (say, Burbank International Airport) rather than a big city hub (like Los Angeles International) could sometimes yield a cheaper fare and a better connection.
The percentage of passenger traffic flowing through the smaller airports is steadily shrinking, while airlines concentrate more on the big-city hubs.
The importance of assisting ailing regions to revive with new sectors for economic growth has been supplemented by the development of city "hubs".
One of the immediate effects of reduced operations at the F.A.A. would probably be felt in regional air service, or the vital connections between midsize and small airports and big city hubs.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 The three functions of a city-hub.
