Application of a HUB model of organization of air transportation in the Russian Federation: possibilities and limitations
The work studies the current state of formation of hub systems of air transportation with reference to one aviation mode realizes concentration of regional flights and their distribution over directions on long-distance or international ways. At the present time in the Russian Federation has been formed one big transfer group - Moscow (air-ports DME, SVO, Vnukovo). In order to fetch out the potential national hubs a metric was developed which included attitude to regional and trunk lines and position of passenger throughput on regional and trunk lines. As a result of the research of the transport statistics nearly 10 potential hubs in various constituent territories of the Russian Federation were detected: in North-West federal district (Kaliningrad, Saint-Petersburg), Ural federal district (Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Surgut), Siberian federal district (Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhnevartovsk) and Far Eastern federal district (Khabarovsk, Vladivostok). The work also shows that the limitation of this approach are optional transformations of the market conduct of a base airport's airline as when forming exponents it was assumed that there were equability in rendering of airport slots for air-companies present at the air-port.