Large airplanes are also touted as being more reliable because they have multiple redundant systems that back up major equipment failures. ... Barry Peterson of the Regional Airline Association refutes those claims by saying, "The aircraft used by regional airlines pack the same avionics, employ many multiple redundant systems and use the same two engine configuration that many Boeing aircraft now employ successfully" (http://www.raa.org/ ). ...

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Since the hub and spoke system has taken place, the barrier to entry are higher because new carriers find it difficult to obtain gates and landing slots at the major hubs, and so the new entrants have been forced to use secondary airports. ... For example, the famous British Airways "dirty tricks- campaign against Virgin Atlantic, which included accessing Virgin's computer system and poaching its customers. ... 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...

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