Talk:Airline hub
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[edit] Rankings
I would love to see a table format that gave the number of daily (or weekly) flights and the number of nonstop (and/or direct) destinations (separate into domestic and international?) for each of the hub operations, but I'm not an expert on Wikipedia formatting, or where to get the data. Maybe OAG? or DOT.gov? (at least for US airlines) Hopefully, if the table were created, people could fill it in over time, ideally with source footnoting and timestamping, so we know how current the data is (the month+year that hub had X daily/weekly flights and Y destinations).
[edit] Ryanair
Would someone like to add Ryanair? I think they use Dublin and London-Stansted as hubs, but perhaps someone can confirm and/or add additional primary and/or secondary hubs. -- pne (talk) 08:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- From what I can gather, I don't think that Ryanair 'hubs'. If you look at the destination map on their website or enter a destination city into the ticket booking bar you'll see that they offer lots of point to point services between their bases (of which they have several) and destination cities (all the yellow dots on the map), but they don't offer any connecting services. This would involve handling and transferring bags etc, and to Ryanair that involves additional cost - which they avoid.
- This article is written in a way that suggests that all airlines 'hub', which while being mostly true in the USA, isn't always true elsewhere. Many airlines outside the USA simply offer point to point services and avoid hubs, or hub to a much lesser extent than they do in the USA. Sometimes this is because they serve countries that only have one or two major airports and they destinations from those airports without needing to hub, or they simply serve point to point destinations without passing through hubs. Most flights in New Zealand, South Africa and many flights in Australia for example are point-to-point flights, as are most flights in India from what I can gather. I image the same would be true in China. I suspect that many of the airports that are listed in this article aren't actually hubs, but simply bases. -- Adz|talk 13:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- Most major carriers use hubs to some degree, even if they also have point-to-point service. Air China has a hub in Beijing, South African Airways has one in Jo'burg, Air New Zealand has one in Auckland, etc. However, since Ryanair has no connecting flights, it can't, by definition, have any hubs. DB (talk) 23:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hub Strategic Initiation
It would be worthwhile knowing when the hub concept was initiated. Before there were transcontinental non-stop flights, there were also no hubs. I believe that the hub strategy came about during the age of consolidation of several airlines as a route management tool. Any other thoughts?
Tobyzwiki 04:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)tobyzwiki
