Sentences with phrase «of airline hub»

Direct flights on that route went away over a decade ago, but you could still find plenty of connecting flights from most places in the U.S. because of airline hub - and - spoke systems.

If you have a good knowledge of the airline hubs, the frequency of the flights, and the flight capacities, you can call the airline and recommend alternative routings for them to check.

Not exact matches

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam says the carrier will have four hubs in Africa and talks in particular about the growth potential of the DRC.

When the CEO of Porter Airlines takes one of his regular strolls through Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Porter's corporate headquarters and operations hub located on an island just off the Toronto waterfront, everyone recognizes him.

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«We had unacceptable line waits at the majority of our hubs,» Robert Isom, chief operating officer of American Airlines, tells the AP.

If the flight is out of one of the airline's hubs, it will usually have flight attendants on standby as «ready reserves» to will step in if others don't show up for their shifts on time.

American Airlines lowers its revenue forecast in the wake of Hurricane Irma, which hit its hub in Miami.

Irma is expected to plow into south Florida, where American Airlines operates a hub out of Miami International Airport.

U.S. airlines remaining after a wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft in the event of a storm.

Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport is one of United's largest hubs, accounting for about 17 percent of the airline's capacity.

The airline leases all 53 of its Airbus single - aisle planes, which mostly fly long - haul within the United States and Mexico, with Los Angeles and San Francisco serving as main hubs.

United Continental Holdings Inc. is likely to take at least a $ 265 million financial hit from Hurricane Harvey because of the carrier's reliance on Houston as one of its biggest hubs, an airline analyst said.

Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a United Airlines hub, was most affected by cancellations, with more than 1,000 canceled flights, close to 80 percent of its schedule, according to FlightAware, a plane - tracking website.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

For planes that spend most of their ground time at distant locations, AR can also enable more experienced maintenance teams at the airline's hub to see what local technicians are dealing with and provide timely live support.

American Airlines reported only a handful of diversions and cancellations because the carrier does not use Atlanta as a hub, the airline spokeswoman Alexis Aran Coello said.

We have airline hubs because very few pairs of cities are large enough to sustain a high frequency of service using large airplanes.

The academic and former airline executive Michael Levine, one of intellectual forefathers of deregulation, has described hubs as «factories [that] manufacture route density.»

The list of most - trafficked international airports is full of the usual suspects — large coastal cities and major airline hubs.

Baltimore / Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is a Southwest hub — the airline is responsible for about 70 percent of the flights to and from the airport — and all its planes are 737s, most with the same kind of engine that failed.

About a year ago, after preliminary interviews, tests and forms, I was flown to the hubs of two major airline carriers.

The company strategy of filling out a market before jumping to a new region meant the corporate team could easily support new locations and maintain close contact with franchisees (and cheap flights into Southwest Airlines hubs didn't hurt in the early days).

The international airports in Dubai and neighboring Abu Dhabi (both part of the United Arab Emirates) are hubs for Emirates and Etihad airlines respectively, so Americans travelling to India, Asia, or the Pacific have a chance to lay over in this desert oasis.

Also, if the city where you live or the city where you are going is an airline «hub,» fares may be higher than for flights to or from other nearby cities because of reduced competition.

Network airlines operate a significant portion of flights using at least one hub where connections are made for flights to down - line destinations or spoke cities.

As a result, if you need to connect to one of American Airlines» hub airports, your award ticket might require more mileage.

If you, however, live in a city that is a hub for that airline and it is the only airline you fly, using the credit card for that airline can land you a lot of extra points.

It's also helpful to remember that the airline that will bring you the most value offers nonstop and / or connecting flights to the destinations you most frequently visit - in other words, if you live in Houston, you'll most likely want to consider United because George Bush International Airport is one of United's hub airports.

There are plenty of great rewards - earning credit cards to choose from, but depending on where you live and which airlines best serve your hub airport, some of them are better choices than others.

For travelers in range of a JetBlue hub, the JetBlue card offers a good value both in terms of its airline and its rewards program, though others may be better off with a more general rewards card.

The Alaska Airlines Visa Signature credit card from Bank of America is a great card for travelers who live in Alaska Airlines or Virgin America hubs.

If you fly out of Atlanta, you'd want to get a Delta card, if you fly out of Houston, you'd want to get a United card because those airports are hubs for those airlines.

Part of LATAM Airlines Group and a fellow oneworld member, LATAM Airlines Brazil serves 44 destinations throughout Brazil, including 25 domestic airports from its hub in São Paulo Guarulhos Airport.

The Alaska Airlines Visa Signature credit card from Bank of America is a great card for travelers who live in Alaska Airlines or Virgin America hubs.

The airline will also strengthen its Cebu hub with a total of 51 weekly flights between Cebu and Davao, gateway to the Philippines» southern islands, beginning May 1st, 2016.

United Airlines is a good choice if you're starting at one of their hubs in San Francisco or Los Angeles since you can take advantage of more direct flights, including United's new nonstop service between San Francisco and Singapore beginning in June.

While most flights still connect through Frontier's Denver hub, the airline is increasingly aggressive in adding direct service out of Trenton, which may offer a better connection option for some flights.

The airline operates out of hub airports in Chicago (ORD), Denver (DEN), Guam (GUM), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), Newark (EWR), San Francisco (SFO), Tokyo (NRT), and DC (IAD).

With its strategic position close to the tech and pharma hubs of Cambridge and Peterborough, Emirates will be the first Middle Eastern airline to operate out of the popular north - east London airport.

With budget airlines like EasyJet and RyanAir, it could even be cheaper to stopover in another European hub on your way in or out of Switzerland.

Look at your airline's route map and the route maps of its alliance partners to see which connecting hubs make sense.

There are also airlines like Icelandair and TAP Portugal that allow free stopovers on normal, paid tickets in their respective hub cities of Reykjavik and Lisbon.

The Gold Delta SkyMiles Business card from American Express OPEN is a great choice for business owners who prefer flying with Delta and live in one of the airline's hubs, such as Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis or Detroit.

That opens up a raft of additional possibilities from the airline's hubs in New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles.

United Airlines» new service will connect six of its domestic hubs and eight destinations in California, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin.

By adding an extra weekly flight, Hainan Airlines opens even more opportunities for the only direct flight into mainland China outside of London, but also it enables both business and leisure passengers to easily access more connections from its Beijing hub further into other cities in China as well as further connections to other international airports.

Hawaiian Airlines is the flagship carrier of the Hawaiian Islands, with services mostly focused on flights between Hawaii and hubs in Asia, New Zeland, Australia and the east and west coasts of the United States.

The new seasonal route is part of an expansion of the airline's Vancouver hub, which has included new flights to Brisbane, Australia and additional flights to London, England.

Thrifty Traveler noted that in the event of a «share recapture,» an airline can lower ticket prices in another market to impact an airline adversary — an often localized and short - lived event — or a brief fare war in which an airline attacks another carrier's hubs by lowering flights from those specific airports.

This sale does not include partner airline flights (except for the Oslo flight) so you must be departing from one of Singapore Airlines» U.S. hubs including Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York to take advantage of this sale.