The deregulation of U.S. aviation in 1978 resulted in the reconfiguration of airline networks into hub-and-spoke systems, spatially concentrated around a small number of central airports or 'hubs' through which an airline operates a number of daily waves of flights. A hub-and-spoke network requires a concentration of traffic in both space and time. In contrast to the U.S. airlines, European airlines had entered the phase of spatial network concentration long before deregulation. Bilateral negotiation of traffic rights between governments forced European airlines to focus their networks spatially on small number of 'national' airports. In general, these star-shaped networks were not co-ordinated in time. Transfer opportunities at central airports were mostly created 'by accident'.
Temporal Configuration of European Airline Networks
2005
40 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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