NOUN
- 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 system In A Sentence
- You're credited with being a pioneer of the hub-and-spoke system.
- ‘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.
- 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.
- Since the airlines created today's hub-and-spoke systems in the 1980s, fares have plummeted - but so has the effective speed of air travel, especially for trips that begin or end at spoke airports.
- The hub-and-spoke system made it harder for small airlines to mount an effective challenge to major networks.
- The highly centralized hub-and-spoke system - centralized for the airlines, not us - now regularly bifurcates and often trifurcates even an hour's flight time as the crow flies into a four-hour series of legs.
- The highly centralized hub-and-spoke system - centralized for the airlines, not us - now regularly bifurcates and often trifurcates even an hour's flight time as the crow flies into a four-hour series of legs.
- Further giving this concept fuel is the current state of the airlines, including the inefficient hub-and-spoke system, flight delays and intrusive airport security, not to mention service, or lack thereof, once aboard the airliner.
- Today, planes fly to 500 places in the hub-and-spoke system, and unless a passenger is going from one major city to another, he may have to change plans or endure long layovers.