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- a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available
How To Use hub-and-spoke In A Sentence
- You're credited with being a pioneer of the hub-and-spoke system.
- Unlike traditional or legacy airlines, Southwest does not use a hub-and-spoke transportation model or fly a variety of aircraft. Inder Sidhu: Profiles in Doing Both: The Secret Behind the LUV at Southwest
- ‘The hub-and-spoke system is inherently more expensive to run than point-to-point,’ explained Jack Stephan, spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association.
- The problem is organizational, and the hub-and-spoke decision-making process that was originally created to slash bureaucracy -- that is, to create more decentralized decisions and less hierarchy. Knowledge is Power: kiplog: June 2009 Archives
- US Airways is the smallest of the major hub-and-spoke legacy airlines in the U.S. It has long wanted to hitch its wagon to another carrier, and AMR is the only large opportunity left. Rivals Eye American Airlines
- Integrating identity infrastructure and apps requires evolving to a hub-and-spoke model.
- But hub-and-spoke systems are enormously expensive to run.
- The hub-and-spoke system made it harder for small airlines to mount an effective challenge to major networks.
- In the next five years, Airbus 380 double-decker planes will attempt to succeed in hub-and-spoke travel, while Boeing is pinning aircraft development on point-to-point travel.
- The WBI suite allows you to implement a hub-and-spoke architecture using WBI ICS and WBI Adapter suite, respectively.
