Flying where you don't want to go: An empirical analysis of hubs in the global airline network

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-324

  Derudder, Ben ^a   Devriendt, Lomme ^a   Witlox, Frank ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Airline data; Global cities; Hub and spoke networks; MIDT; Network cities

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247270697     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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