hub-and-spoke

noun

a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available

• Syn: ↑hub-and-spoke system

• Hypernyms: ↑air transportation system

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\\¦ ̷ ̷  ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ \ adjective

: being or relating to a system of routing air traffic in which a major airport serves as a central point for coordinating flights to and from other airports

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/hub"euhn spohk"/, adj.

of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.

[1980-85]

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hub-and-spoke UK US adjective business

used for describing a system in which goods or people are transported from various local places to a central point from which they travel or are sent long distances

Thesaurus: relating to or describing vehicles and transportation_synonym general and informal words for vehicles_hyponym

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hub-and-spoke «HUHB uhnd SPOHK», adjective.

of or having to do with a system of transportation, especially of small airlines, by which passengers or freight are carried on branch routes to a central city to make connections for transportation to a large metropolitan area: »

Another post-deregulation trend…was hub-and-spoke operations [that] depend largely on feeder traffic (Grant M. Davis). Hub-and-spoke systems make for many shorter, better-filled and hence more profitable flights than nonstops (New York Times Magazine).

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denoting a system of air transportation in which local airports offer flights to a central airport where international or long-distance flights are available