The Internet has helped, the airlines to easily achieve greater reach, and to develop new ways of interaction with suppliers, partners and clients as well as significant cost reduction throughout all business operation. With the Internet, airlines could change the distribution channels; customers have already started to purchase their airline tickets directly from the airline, bypassing the traditional travel agencies. Expanding the electronic commerce market, which brings together demand and supply through the Internet, and also the advancement of information and communications technology, ...

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Routes KLM offers their passenger more than more than 125,000 city pair connections, and more that 350 cities in 73 countries on six continents. An important aspect of KLM's route network philosophy is to offer at least daily frequencies that give passengers ample choices with regard to connections. ...

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Simultaneously, the blossoming Internet was making it easier for passengers and less expensive for airlines to coordinate ticket information. ... American Eagle Airlines, Comair (Delta Connection) and Continental Express were ranked as the three largest regional carriers, in terms of passenger enplanements, during 1999. ...

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Following deregulation, most of the largest airlines began to operate on a "hub-and-spoke" system, where travelers from a "spoke" city typically will make connections. The hub-and-spoke system has allowed for efficient connections for passengers from small- and mid-sized cities, but it also has increased airline concentration at hubs. ...

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