Commercial aviation Spoke–hub distribution paradigm
in 1955, delta air lines pioneered hub , spoke system @ hub in atlanta, georgia, in effort compete eastern air lines. in mid-1970s fedex adopted hub , spoke model overnight package delivery. after airline industry deregulated in 1978, several other airlines adopted delta s hub , spoke paradigm.
airlines have extended hub-and-spoke model in various ways. 1 method create additional hubs on regional basis , create major routes between them. reduces need travel long distances between nodes near 1 another. method use focus cities implement point-to-point service high-traffic routes , bypass hub entirely.
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