To fly from one major hub airport to another today is, alas, barely tolerable.
Our vision is to create the world's greatest international hub airport in the world's greatest city.
About 15 different proposals for a new hub airport in south east England have already been made public.
The plan for the hub airport, the fourth proposed for the South East, is being opposed by environmentalists.
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London's mayor has announced he has appointed "a mighty team of experts" to help develop his hub airport plans.
He also said building a Boris Island hub airport would be "stupid, hare-brained".
In addition the UK's only hub airport - Heathrow - is already operating at capacity with no room for expansion.
In February, London mayor Boris Johnson announced he had appointed a team of experts to help develop his hub airport plans.
Another hub airport is Los Angeles' LAX, which is the main funnel for people heading to Australia, the South Pacific, and Asia.
The Transport Committee (at 4.35pm) has a session following up its research on the commercial viability of a new hub airport to replace Heathrow.
He said it was time to be bold and said a new hub airport would help economic growth and create hundreds of jobs in the South East.
But Mr Johnson did not steer clear and he said that a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary - dubbed Boris Island - was the only real solution.
Because Heathrow is the UK's only hub airport, it has shown some resilience in the downturn, as passengers continued to fly into the airport before connecting to other destinations.
More alarming to Virgin than losing this opportunity is that the deal tightens the grip that its archrival, BA, and its oneworld alliance partners have on Heathrow, London's main hub airport.
Among the options most favoured by the industry are a third runway at Heathrow, a new runway at Stansted or the so called Boris Island hub airport off the Essex coast.
The quickest way to figure out if you can save by booking two tickets is to figure out if there is a hub airport that funnels most American travelers to your overseas destination.
At the start of this year, he produced a study calling for either a four-runway hub airport on a new site in the estuary or increased capacity at existing airports nearby, such as Gatwick or Stansted.
In a statement, Heathrow said it would be examining the CAA's proposals "carefully" before giving its response, but said its status as the UK's only hub airport made it a "strategically important national asset" that required continued investment.
The policy also makes it clear that the party has a long term vision for a new hub airport - if an appropriate location can be found - but without an increase in runways or total airport capacity.
The Mayor of London has again waded into the argument over aviation capacity, telling business leaders that building a new four-runway hub airport in the Thames Estuary is the only way for the UK to be able to compete on the world stage.
There have also been three different plans to build airports in the Thames estuary - a floating airport designed by architects Gensier, another plan known as Boris Island after it was backed by London mayor Boris Johnson, and proposals for a hub airport on the Isle of Grain designed by architect Norman Foster.
The findings of the economic consultancy, Oxera, were leaked this week (and the committee has some pretty definite ideas about whodunit) were that, under most scenarios, expected revenues from a new hub airport would be less than the likely costs of construction - so the development would not be commercially viable without substantial support from the taxpayer.
On the other hand, the majors' strengthening of the hub-and-spoke networks (by which travelers go from A to B via a hub in airport C) imply that entry into new markets -- what in the industry is called "city-pairs" -- is relatively simple.
Delta hasn't advertised its Porsche shuttle at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest airport hub in the world by number of passengers.
Kennedy International Airport in New York by increasing the number of transatlantic flights out of its hub at nearby Newark Airport in New Jersey.
There's been speculation of a rail hub near East Midland Airport or Toton Sidings between Nottingham and Derby.
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"We are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the North America, which is the best place for a hub ... airport to be, " he says.
Jetstar and Air Asia are using Narita airport as their hub, which is expensive and time-consuming to get to from Tokyo.
In Newark, Delta will take on United Airlines, which inherited a hub operation at Liberty International Airport when it bought Continental in 2010, forming United Continental Holdings Inc.
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