hub-and-spoke
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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Further, there’s little interest outside the U.S. where the hub-and-spoke system isn’t common and rail systems are more developed.
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Brian Foley, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Until then, most botnets used a hub-and-spoke system—a hacker would program a single command server to distribute orders directly to infected machines, known as zombie computers.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2017
In addition to creating a no-frills, few-fees experience, Southwest adopted a point-to-point routing system, allowing passengers to fly between cities without transferring, rather than the hub-and-spoke model, which requires fliers to stop over in another city.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
The airline, which uses a hub-and-spoke model through Reykjavik, has made a business out of connecting smaller U.S. cities to Europe.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2024
Because of Icelandair’s hub-and-spoke model, passengers won’t ever hitch a ride straight to a city like Paris or Amsterdam, but Ingason said plenty of travelers are taking advantage of that stop in Reykjavik.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2024
Historically, this has been referred to as a hub-and-spoke system, in which the United States is the hub to each of its five treaty alliances (Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand), but those alliances, in turn, do not interact.
—Jeffrey W. Hornung, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024
In this hub-and-spoke model, the drones are launched from a handful of blood banks in major cities, zooming through the skies at 75 miles per hour.
—Simar Bajaj, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Many major retailers operate on a hub-and-spoke system, centralizing inventory in these large warehouses for quick distribution around the country and enabling phenomena like overnight or one-day delivery.
—Erleia, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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Brian Foley, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Until then, most botnets used a hub-and-spoke system—a hacker would program a single command server to distribute orders directly to infected machines, known as zombie computers.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2017
In addition to creating a no-frills, few-fees experience, Southwest adopted a point-to-point routing system, allowing passengers to fly between cities without transferring, rather than the hub-and-spoke model, which requires fliers to stop over in another city.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
The airline, which uses a hub-and-spoke model through Reykjavik, has made a business out of connecting smaller U.S. cities to Europe.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2024
Because of Icelandair’s hub-and-spoke model, passengers won’t ever hitch a ride straight to a city like Paris or Amsterdam, but Ingason said plenty of travelers are taking advantage of that stop in Reykjavik.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2024
Historically, this has been referred to as a hub-and-spoke system, in which the United States is the hub to each of its five treaty alliances (Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand), but those alliances, in turn, do not interact.
—Jeffrey W. Hornung, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024
In this hub-and-spoke model, the drones are launched from a handful of blood banks in major cities, zooming through the skies at 75 miles per hour.
—Simar Bajaj, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Many major retailers operate on a hub-and-spoke system, centralizing inventory in these large warehouses for quick distribution around the country and enabling phenomena like overnight or one-day delivery.
—Erleia, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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