Airline hub

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An airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. It is part of a hub and spoke model, where travelers moving between airports not served by direct flights change planes en route to their destination.

Some airlines may use only a single hub, while other airlines use multiple hubs. Hubs are used for both passenger flights as well as cargo flights.

Many airlines also utilize focus cities, which function much the same as hubs, but with fewer flights. Airlines may also use secondary hubs, a non-technical term for large focus cities. Examples include British Airways at Manchester Airport and US Airways at Pittsburgh International Airport.

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A fortress hub is a hub dominated by a single airline that controls a share of flights at or above the monopoly standard of 70 percent of flights in and out of the hub.[1] A fortress hub is difficult for new entrant carriers to penetrate.[2] New entrants, such as Spirit Airlines at (DTW), AirTran at (ATL), and Vanguard at (DFW), allege to have been the target of exclusionary practices by the dominant carrier. Some observers argue that the existence of such hubs can stifle competition; ProAir's battle with Northwest when it briefly flew out of Detroit City Airport is often cited as an example. Northwest was able to out compete the short-lived discount carrier by matching its fares and offering more frequent flights.

Examples of fortress hubs include:

Phuket International Airport (HKT).

  1. ^ Dr. Mark N. Cooper (22 January 1999). "Freeing Public Pollicy from the Deregulation Debate: The Airline Industry Comes of Age" (.PDF). Consumer Federation of America. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
  2. ^ Appendix A: Statement of Enforcement Policy Regarding Unfair Exclusionary Conduct 10 - 11. Retrieved on March 28, 2007.
  3. ^ Source: City of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, May 2005; USAirways.com, June 2005

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