American Eagle was no doubt hurt by rough weather this past year at its main hub city of Dallas-Fort Worth.
It had been open just one day when I arrived, and the new rail service would save me from retracing the uncomfortable five-hour bus trip I had endured to get here from the tourist hub of Guilin city, about 150km to the southeast.
All a major needs to do is to start service between one hub and a given city to have service to hundreds of new city-pairs, all prior existing cities being suddenly connected to a new destination.
The once-bustling airport -- it was the site of the 1948 Berlin airlift that brought food to West Berliners after Soviets blockaded the city --closed in 2008 when a new international hub opened on the outskirts of the city.
But Delta Air Lines' decision in the mid-1980s to turn the city into its hub means that it is easily accessible by air.
The deaths were among the 16 confirmed cases of human infection in the nation, mostly on the eastern coast near the Shanghai, the nation's biggest city and financial hub.
Stefano Tonchi, editor-in-chief of W magazine, called the Missonis "one of the most important Italian fashion families, " crediting their move to Milan in the late 1960s with helping make the northern Italian city the fashion hub it is today.
Six of the country's seven biggest-earning railways converge there, and the city is still the hub for a staggering amount of trans-continental commerce.
Berlin, once a Coos County paper hub whose motto is "The City That Trees Built, " had been a bustling mill town of more than 15, 000 in 1970 but by 2010 had lost nearly 40% of its population, he said.
Alas, they do not belong to the locals but to city slickers who want their hub caps repainted.
Included along with the arena project was the expensive construction of Penn Station, the city's major train hub.
Fighting also raged in and around the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its main commercial hub, they said.
Three decades later, the city has become a major hub for software and service outsourcing, and the local government is pouring funds into the tourism sector.
Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Four centuries after the Golden Age, a period of prosperity and artistic achievement that transformed Amsterdam from a fishing village into a wealthy hub of international trade, this delightful city is in the middle of a new renaissance.
Unfortunately, few U.S. airports rarely offer the ease or public transport connections into their affiliated cities that Heathrow does, but one rare exception is Salt Lake City, a major Delta hub, which just this week debuted TRAX, a light rail train into downtown.
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He discovered it was sending stolen data to an Internet user in Tianjin, China's third-largest city and the second-biggest hub for manufacturing, particularly electronics.
The money will go towards establishing a "creative hub" in the east part of the city to encourage new business and potentially create thousands of jobs.
An increasingly dynamic city, Seoul is an exemplary hub of technology and engineering as South Korea achieves global greatness with brands such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai.
The group will work in Dubai for an entire month, in an effort to soak up what there is to learn in a city that has become a tourist hub and gateway to the Middle East.
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In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
One reason the U.S. and many other countries maintain substantial consular staff in the city is its role as a commercial hub for the region.
There is a broader threat to the City's status as a financial hub: it may struggle to remain relevant when the biggest engines of economic growth are half a world away.
Another is to preserve the sanctity of London's two long-established cities: the retail and entertainment hub of Westminster and the more powerful and independent City of London, now a financial district.
More broadly, and this might surprise those who see Los Angeles through the lens of Hollywood and technological business concepts of the mind, Abrahamson reminds the reader that the city used to be a major manufacturing hub.
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In 2011, the second phase of Keystone connected Steele City, Nebraska, to the major oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Top corporate headquarters moved out in the 1980s and in 2007 the city lost its status as a major transportation hub.
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