COVID-19: The end of the airline hub?
6 min readMay 17, 2020
The pandemic the world is currently experiencing has hit the aviation industry perhaps more than any other. Its effects are likely to be felt for many years to come, both in airline operations and strategy, including the hub-and-spoke model which many airlines operate. Could COVID-19 spell the end of the hub model?
Delta Airlines is widely recognised as the first airline to have introduced the…