On 8/25/07, phil henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, the intense 'hive' of relationships between airline attendants at > an airline 'hub' also counts, though they appear at different levels of > the airline network organization. A lot of the appearance of things has > to do with how you aggregate your data. There probably are also a > number of more regional airline networks that are a 'hive' of sorts that > then serve 'hubs' of a larger system, like bush flights in Alaska that > would normally just 'not count' or for which data would be unavailable > when drawing the shape of the larger network.
Hub and spoke or point to point, the main point of the airline system is to get everyone home again, so it's actually composed of many, many, many loops: passengers make round trips; flight and cabin crews make multi-day tours from their home base; aircraft return to maintenance stations of different capabilities every three days, seven days, three weeks; gates cycle through debarkation and embarkation many times a day. The flight schedule, the route map, is but a slice of the actual network. -- rec --
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