There are not many, but there are a few, mostly in Asia. In addition to the NW and UA hubs at Tokyo, Qantas have a hub at Singapore and Cathay Pacific at Taipei. In the latter case the flights purport to be through flights from Hong Kong to Japan, Korea etc, but in many cases they are actually overtaken by non-stop aircraft direct from Hong Kong, and are provided for the Taipei market.

Iberia have a hub at Miami, in from Spain with 747s and out to many Latin American destinations with several A319s. The Iberia aircraft can all be seen together at MIA aroud 5.00 pm each afternoon.

The new low-fare European airlines are rapidly spreading their hubs through Europe. Ryanair's London Stansted hub is much larger than their Irish home base in Dublin, in addition to which they also have Prestwick (Scotland), Charleroi (Belgium) and Hahn (Germany). Easyjet now have hubs at Paris, Amsterdam and Geneva.


[This message has been edited by WHBM (edited 08-22-2002).]