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South East Europe Hub and Spoke Air Network Reconfiguration

The paper presents the passenger and cargo historical traffic data analysis at the Zagreb Airport, at certain airports in the wider region and globally for a period of half a century. The war during nighties last century and disintegration of Yugoslavia has as a consequence brake of air transport based on hub and spoke system with three airports as a hub: Zagreb, Belgrade and Ljubljana. During and after the war, domestic airliner in a region and foreign airliner implemented primarily point to point system. Hub airports has become originate-destination airports with mainly local passenger and insignificant ratio of transfer and transit passenger. The causes of passenger and cargo traffic slow growth at Zagreb Airport and of passengers at certain airports in a narrow region have been analyze and results are lower growth of air traffic on capital airports of the new countries and greater air traffic growth on the capital airports and other in countries of wide region comparing with a global passenger transport growth. The paper points to the possible measures to increase the share of transfer passenger and cargo traffic at Zagreb Airport and certain airports in the immediate region.

Case study ; Air transport historical data analysis ; Hub-and-spoke reconfiguration ; Point-to-point ; Zagreb Airport

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