Singapore Airlines (SIA) is consistently recognized as the world’s “best” airline. It is regularly voted “best business class”, “best cabin crew service”, “best in‐flight food”, “best for punctuality and safety”, “best for business travelers”, “best air cargo...

This paper analyzes the relative economic power position of home carriers in hub-and-spoke systems. Hub-and-spoke systems may lower costs on densely traveled routes and enable economically viable operations on less densely traveled routes. The reverse side is probably that carriers enjoy...