Some travellers love them; others will do anything to avoid them. But few can deny that hub airports have become a hallmark of air transport in the USA. Proponents of hubs say they are a logical response to the 1978 deregulation of the airline industry (Airways, May/Jun 1995 & October 2003), and point to the explosive growth in passenger traffic over the past two decades as evidence that the hub-and-spoke system works. Critics call hubs congested, inefficient, and expensive, arguing that they stifle competition and keep ticket prices high on many routes.
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