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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker View Post
    Neither Madrid or Rome are real airport hubs (they are certainly important but they aren't the real big players). London (Heathrow, Gatwick), Paris (Charles de Gaulle) and Amsterdam (Schiphol) are much more important.
    Yup by order the most important ones are :

    Heathrow
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker View Post
    Neither Madrid or Rome are real airport hubs. London (Heathrow, Gatwick), Paris (Charles de Gaulle) and Amsterdam (Schiphol) are much more important.
    Actually, Madrid is an important link between Europe and Latin America, principally thanks to Iberia and to some extent Air Europa and various Latin American airlines, especially Avianca and LATAM. Meanwhile, Rome-Fiumicino is the main hub for Alitalia, which is an especially important airline for connections within Italy as well as to other countries in SE Europe.

    But the main point is that Madrid and Rome are capital cities of two of Europe's biggest countries. Therefore, to ignore them from your range of destinations means that you cannot be genuinely taken as a gateway to Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KMack View Post
    Frankfurt is right there also.

    Quote Originally Posted by MsSPF View Post
    Yup by order the most important ones are :

    Heathrow
    CDG
    Schiphol
    Frankfurt
    I somehow always forget bl.... Frankfurt. Well, yes, it wasn't the brightest airport I've ever visited..



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    I know from CDG, Air France serves at least 14 cities in the US, it's huge! I think they are the most important destinations for the company

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    Actually, Madrid is an important link between Europe and Latin America, principally thanks to Iberia and to some extent Air Europa and various Latin American airlines, especially Avianca and LATAM. Meanwhile, Rome-Fiumicino is the main hub for Alitalia, which is an especially important airline for connections within Italy as well as to other countries in SE Europe.
    You forget that CDG, Heathrow and Schiphol offer direct connections to much of Latin America as well and there are direct flights from the U.S as well. Madrid's importance is overstated. And no: for Americans flying to SE-Europe, he will either fly directly or via the Big Three.



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    Quote Originally Posted by MsSPF View Post
    I know from CDG, Air France serves at least 14 cities in the US, it's huge! I think they are the most important destinations for the company
    Same with KLM in Schiphol. They are, pretty much, one airliner so they should be seen as one airliner with two hubs.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    By Latin America, I mean everywhere from Mexico southwards in the mainland Americas. Although Cuba, DR and PR count too, for the purpose of this thread I counted them as Caribbean rather than Latin American. In any event, the point is that the absence or presence of flights between two places isn't just to do with tourism and business - there is immigration too.
    Then you have to count Cancun as Latin America, which is super popular, serviced directly by most A and B airports directly.
    For the lack of a better term I would toss Cancun into the Caribbean category, that is what they compete with. The 3 bigs there are
    Cancun, Punta Cana, Montego. Historically Americans do not visit Cuba. There isn't a lot of traffic to S. America. Mexico City is probably up in the rankings somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker View Post
    Same with KLM in Schiphol. They are, pretty much, one airliner so they should be seen as one airliner with two hubs.
    I was not sure about KLM because despite being in the same group, both entities are still very independant from each other with different CEOs and offers etc... Good to know! I know some destinations are sometimes different depending on the company (Air France or KLM)

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker View Post
    You forget that CDG, Heathrow and Schiphol offer direct connections to much of Latin America as well and there are direct flights from the U.S as well. Madrid's importance is overstated. And no: for Americans flying to SE-Europe, he will either fly directly or via the Big Three.
    You and KMack seem to be missing the point here. The point is that it is extremely common for US airports to have direct flights to London (mainly Heathrow, sometimes Gatwick), Paris CDG, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but not so common for them to have direct flights to Madrid and Rome. Therefore, only those that do can properly be described as gateways to Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KMack View Post
    Then you have to count Cancun as Latin America, which is super popular, serviced directly by most A and B airports directly.
    For the lack of a better term I would toss Cancun into the Caribbean category, that is what they compete with. The 3 bigs there are
    Cancun, Punta Cana, Montego. Historically Americans do not visit Cuba. There isn't a lot of traffic to S. America. Mexico City is probably up in the rankings somewhere.
    OK good points. All the same, South Americans are more likely to visit the US rather than the opposite, and in big numbers too. What's more, given all the immigrants from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Argentina in quite a few US cities, then surely there'd be a lot of people visiting relatives in both directions?

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