Analysis of International Air Hubs: A Competitiveness Review

Abstract

The air transport industry is characterized by the consequences of the speedy and momentous impacts of surrounding actions and economic and social changes. An airport hub serves as a center point that connects everyone and everything. Because they protect the financial interests of airlines and satisfy the connectivity requirements of both passengers and cargo, hubs continue to play a significant role in aviation. An efficient hub airport with enough extra space will increase passenger options and encourage airline competition by allowing additional competitors, routes, and frequencies. The airport networks need to apply the developed management and use its features to try to arrive at the optimum results and used its facilities such as: (geographical, capital, the ability for multi-model transports, ready to apply with the future technology, ready to welcome the companies such as FedEx and DHL, applying e-airport with e-airline with e- freight with e-AWB). This helps to achieve maximum growth and to be able to face rapid growth. Future airport networks need to reach all sites, so they should employ several different transmission technologies. Accordingly, this paper aims to compare the competitiveness of the busiest hub in each continent or region in 2019 for cargo and passengers which will be Hong Kong airport (HKIA) for Asia, Frankfurt hub (Fraport) for Europe, in Africa Addis Ababa air hub (ADD) and Cairo international airport hub (CAI), while for middle east will be Dubai airport (DXB).