The deregulation of US aviation has led to drastic changes in route structures and to widespread adoption of the hub-and-spoke system. This paper investigates whether deregulation in the European Union has led to a similar pattern. The study uses time schedule data for all airports in the...

The deregulation of US domestic passenger aviation in 1978 resulted in the reconfiguration of airline networks into radial route systems, spatially concentrated around a small number of central airports or ‘hubs’. This paper investigates whether a similar spatial concentration trend...