Point-To-Point Vs. Hub & Spoke: What Are The Key Differences?

The 2000s and 2010s saw the question of whether point-to-point or hub-and-spoke travel would be the future of the aviation industry. Airbus bet on the hub-and-spoke system and developed the massiveAirbus A380-800 to service the model while also planning to build the even larger stretched A380-900. Meanwhile, Boeing bet on the point-to-point model and developed the clean-sheet 787 ‘Dreamliner.’