hub-and-spoke
hub-and-spoke system

This contrasts with most public transportation systems, which use a hub-and-spoke system.

He is setting up a kind of hub-and-spoke system - one large store will handle big print jobs for surrounding small ones.

It does not restrict flights to an efficient hub-and-spoke system.

Before deregulation, the industry worked much the same way the airlines work now, by a hub-and-spoke system.

Under the hub-and-spoke system, the country was split into regions dominated by single carriers.

The most visible change brought by deregulation was the hub-and-spoke system.

The hub-and-spoke system means that most travelers can choose among several airlines.

And whatever changes deregulation brings next, the hub-and-spoke system seems certain to be with us for a very long time.

Again, the large carrier using a hub-and-spoke system - American - failed to turn a profit.

Or, a decade from now, it could turn out that the hub-and-spoke system made sense after all.