Word: hubs
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...Aircraft analyst Richard L. Aboulafia of Teal Group has called the A380 "the worst product launch decision since New Coke." The A380 was born in a hub-and-spoke world where flights between countries were regulated. Now, airlines are freer to go point-to-point, avoiding the major hubs - and making 800-passenger megajets less necessary. (Emirates, the first to fly the A380 into New York City, quietly withdrew the plane from its JFK flights...
...Then-New York City mayor Fiorello H.] LaGuardia basically said, ‘You can’t call anything burlesque in New York,’” Allen explains. “And New York being the theatrical hub, burlesque really folds...
...North Korean state closed the nation’s largest non-governmental market hub — Pyongsong, on the outskirts of Pyongyang — in June of this year, and in January, it placed broad restrictions of the operation of such marketplaces...
...forgotten in parklike environments studded with tombs so exquisitely imaginative that they resemble works of art. There's a certain macabre logic, then, to Le 104 (or the Centquatre), an ambitious multidisciplinary arts center that was once a state-run pompes funèbres - a municipal funeral hub from which hearses, coffins and corpses were dispatched to cemeteries...
That sort of artsy fashion, plus the underground music scene, plus 170 museums and a host of renovated monuments have all helped fuel a surge in tourism. The fact that discount airlines like easyJet have made Schönefeld Airport, in the former communist East, their German hub has also given the city a boost. The number of visitors from abroad is up 2.5 times since 2003. Just as dramatic is the influx of foreigners moving to Berlin to live - they now make up almost 1 in 7 of its 3.5 million inhabitants. The number of non-German Europeans living...