The two most expensive large airports on the list, Cincinnati and Charlotte, are both big hubs in medium-sized cities, which means that their hub carriers end up with massive market shares and a prodigious pricing power.
Although Temasek will operate Sygnia as its own independent entity, this deal is a sign of how the Singaporean company is ramping up its cybersecurity activities overall: just last month, it formed a cybersecurity joint venture called Ensign InfoSecurity with StarHub, the Singaporen carrier, bringing together Temasek subsidiary Quann and StarHub subsidiary Accel Systems.
Two prime examples: Denver, Colo., and Myrtle Beach, S.C. Denver is not only a great city and jumping off point for a mountain getaway but also a strategic low-cost carrier hub.
Every jet grounded by a hub-and-spoke carrier is a growth opportunity for Southwest.
Airplanes may not fly through the streets, as envisioned by the architects of Buenos Aires, but entire cities may be reduced to picturesque service centers for air carrier hubs.
Whereas most other international airlines rely heavily on travellers to or from their home countries, the super-connectors' passengers mostly just change planes at the carriers' hub airports on their way to somewhere else.
He is pinning his hopes on the emergence of new, independent regional airlines, flying between medium-sized cities rather than connecting with the big carriers' "hub" airports, and thus unaffected by their labour-relations problems.In Europe, scope clauses are rarer, but there is another threat to the regional jet makers' ambitions: lack of airspace.
At the 27 or so airports considered hubs of one carrier, the airport's own bonds take on more of the characteristics of airline corporate bonds than munis.
The airport is a major hub for discount carriers, like Southwest and others.
