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Passengers flying on Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners may connect through Frankfurt Airport, Lufthansa's main hub Airline hubs or hub airports are used by one or more airlines to concentrate passenger traffic and flight operations at a given airport. They serve as transfer (or stop-over) points to get passengers to their final destination. [a] [b] It is part of the hub-and-spoke system. An airline operates flights from several non-hub (spoke) cities to the hub airport, and passengers traveling between spoke cities need to connect through the hub. This paradigm creates economies of scale that allow an airline to serve (via an intermediate connection) city-pairs that could otherwise not be economically served on a non-stop basis. This system contrasts with the point-to-point model, in which there are no hubs and nonstop flights are instead offered between spoke cities. Hub airports also serve origin and destination (O&D) traffic. Contents 1 Focus city...

Loganair

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Loganair IATA ICAO Callsign LM [1] LOG LOGAN Founded 1962 AOC # 2105 Hubs Glasgow Airport Secondary hubs Aberdeen Airport Edinburgh Airport Inverness Airport Kirkwall Airport Focus cities Kirkwall Airport Manchester Airport Norwich Airport Stornoway Airport Sumburgh Airport Frequent-flyer program Clan Loganair [2] Fleet size 30 Destinations 27 Company slogan Scotland's Airline Parent company Airline Investments Limited (AIL) Headquarters Cirrus Building 9 Marchburn Drive Glasgow Airport Paisley PA3 2SJ [3] Website www.loganair.co.uk Loganair Limited is a Scottish regional airline founded in 1962, with its registered office on the grounds of Glasgow Airport in Paisley, Renfrewshire. [4] Its tag line is Scotland's Airline . Loganair provides services for the night mail flights on behalf of Royal Mail. In addition to its main base at Glasgow, the airline has hubs at Edinburgh Airport, Inv...