¿Whaté It is a Hub or connection center? One of the téterms in aviationón más used in the world, but that few understand its real meaning and importance. we explain it.
Many aerosolsícompanies daily market or carry out campaignñadvertising around their «Hubs» or connection centers as you caníto literally translate that word.
¿Whaté It is a Hub or connection center?
A hub, téterm that comes from Englishés, refers to a hub or center of activity, similar to what happens in informática with Ethernet or USB port hubs, where in a single device, the connection is concentratedón of all the cables and from thereí, la informationón is transmitted to another destination.
applyápotón, A Hub is an airport where many destinations arrive and thenés your passengers or informationón as in the example above, leaves for another destination.
A Hub specializes in providing convenient flight schedules and designñdesigned to offer users wireless connectionsáheld, along with uninterrupted service or the mostás low possible, between one destination and another.
Characterícharacteristics of a Hub
- Locationón geográfica that stands out and climatic conditionsáfavorable ethics.
- Airport that operates the 24 hours of the dayía.
- Connections ráask from among 1 hour until 6 waiting hoursáxima.
- Airport infrastructure designed to facilitate connections.
- Avi changeón without the need to perform migrationón and customs.
- one or más aerolílines that offer an operationóContinuous and direct route to many international destinations.
It should be clarified that, a Hub is mainly considered for international flights, but sun flightséaesthetics tooéThey are not part of the Hub, although requireán de migrationón and customs, limiting one of the objectives that are connections ráask and fáCila.
Hub Examples
As we could see recently in the post about the mega hubs of the world, these are found mainly in the northern hemisphere of the planet, where the following airports stand out, such as 5 más important:
- London Heathrow Airport
- Airport Chicago O’Hare
- The airport of Frankfurt – FROM
- amsterdam airport
- toronto airport
In what is at the Latin levelérican, Hubs are known Copa Airlines with his «AM HUBérich«, which is one of the fastest growing in the regionón, the collapsed Lima airport where LATAM Perú and Avianca Peruú They use it as a connection center, Sao Paulo Gurulhos with LATAM Airlines Brazil, Bogotaá with Avianca and city of México, the más big of all like hub Aeroméxico.
Hub in Ecuador
It has always been a dreamñor for Ecuador to have a connection center, that taking advantage of our positionón geográlocated in the center of the world and the American continent, allow travelers from north and south, fly to the whole world.
This Sueñor of the toñit has not been specifiedún, but yesí, in the éLittle of Ecuadorian from Aviación We had a kind of undeclared HUB with all the destinations that this aerolínea operated mainly, from Guayaquil towards almost all of América.
The más recent attempt to create a HUB in Ecuador came hand in hand with Tame EP, when it startedó flights to new york, Fort Lauderdale, Bogotaá, Cali, Caracas, Lima, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo from the Quito International Airport within its expansion frameworkón international, but it was slowed down by poor performance of several of the routes.
It is to be expected that many airports in the regionón, including ours, seek to be a HUB, but a lot dependsá Of capacity, created routes and market to achieve the ésuccess.
¿Have you ever flown to or from something?ún HUB? ¿Whaté I called youó the attentionón?
What legal regulations are based on so that a cargo hub can be created? It is known that the airport is restricted until 2041 by Quiport any criteria or comments according to the legal regulations in Ecuador on the CHARGING HUB
I understand that it is a statement only, but there is no legal regulation that allows or prevents it necessarily.
Of course it is only in the report but there is some legal regulation for it to be classified as a hub or what is needed to classify the airport as a hub
as i commented, it is only necessary to declare it by the authorities from the DGAC, MTOP and Municipality as far as I know.
Very good explanation from Hub. The development of this type of infrastructure goes hand in hand, as mentioned, of the geographical situation of the country.. For example, the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris is also a hub.. Nevertheless, economic policy decisions of the countries can also contribute by providing important support to their execution, via concession of your design, construction and service management. This type of infrastructure requires optimal synchronization of operations, It usually happens that large ships arrive and then transfer to smaller ships with closer destinations..
There are two important terms: arrives "From" and goes "Towards".
Greetings
The little importance in the business of aeronautics is noted, I think Guayaquil has an excellent climate for there to be a HUB, I see neighboring countries in which their cities have HUB's, starting from Panama City, Bogota, giving a leap (thinking of Ecuador) to Lima. We must develop this HUB where it attracts tourists worldwide, make a strategic alliance with an airline. Mariscal Sucre's problem is its climate, in Tababela there is a lot of fog, On the other hand, Guayaquil, the climate is ideal for this phenomenal idea..
Living in London I have been able to make connections at Heathrow to various international destinations via British Airways, other airlines with alliances and codeshares.
In addition to the characteristics that you mention, Nicolás, I see, taking the example of London Heathrow, it is the high traffic. (first in Europe), its efficient infrastructure with trains, metro, taxis y buses. Also close to the city. London Heathrow does not operate 24 hours like other big HUBs. They usually close after 00:00 and reopen both tracks from 4:30 O 5:00am since in those hours they do maintenance and sometimes, as can happen in other places, they cancel, flights are delayed due to bad weather until weather conditions improve, as has already happened to me more than twice.
In Latin America we need to improve infrastructures, implement train service 24/7 and I know it is very expensive but it will have to be done at some point, earlier than later.
Strongly agree, infrastructure slows down our region a lot.