The airline's main base of operations is Chileka International Airport, Blantyre, with a hub at Lilongwe International Airport.

Today Miami is American's largest air freight hub and is the main connecting point in the airline's north-south international route network.

Expansion saw new bases in the UK established, with Dublin becoming the airline's first overseas hub in 1996. Leisure International Airways was fully integrated after the acquisition by First Choice of Unijet in June 1998.

The main terminal building for Terminal C was built alongside Terminals A and B in the 1970s, but lay dormant until PEOPLExpress took it over as a replacement for the former North Terminal when the airline's hub there outgrew the old facility.

At the same time, the arrival of low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways at Long Beach Airport in 2001, and that airline's decision to establish a West Coast hub at LGB, has substantially increased the air traffic to the airport and has cemented LGB's standing as a viable alternative to LAX for flights from the Los Angeles area to major East Coast cities.

However, the majority of US Airways ' international routes are served out of the airline's second-largest hub, Philadelphia.

As of 2004 most of the airline's employees were Guam-based, due to the location of the corporate headquarters and the airline's main hub.

Also among the cuts is the termination of the Saipan-Manila flights on July 15 which is the last remaining Air Mike flight for Saipan, the airline's original hub 40 years ago.

In addition, United Airlines uses Lafayette Regional as a diversion airport when inclement weather disrupts flight operations at the airline's major connecting hub located at Houston Intercontinental Airport ( IAH ) in Texas.

Go Fly established a hub at East Midlands, and the operation has been strengthened since the airline's absorption by easyJet.

Prior to the debilitating labor strike in 1998 which caused PAL to temporarily cease operation, Legazpi Airport served as the airline's hub in Bicol, serving Manila, Cebu, Masbate, Virac, even Catarman, Samar.

The Boeing 777F will be used primarily on Qatar Airways ' Far East and European routes and will be supplemented by Airbus A300-600F freighters operating on regional routes feeding the airline's hub.

The airline's hub was at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport.

This airport is the airline's largest hub.

Until recently, the airline's hub was Mitiga Airport, which, although smaller than Tripoli International Airport, is much closer to the city centre of Tripoli.

In September 2007 Continental Airlines announced three daily flights from Lansing to the airline's hub in Cleveland to begin in May 2008 ; however, rising fuel costs and the delay of terminal expansion plans at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ( CLE ) caused Continental to suspend these flights before they began.

In 2000 WestJet expanded to Canada's eastern region, choosing Hamilton as the airline's eastern region hub, and flying to destinations from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia.

A fortress hub is an airport where a single airline's share of flights is at or above the monopoly standard of 70 percent of flights in and out of the hub.

Additionally, there are labels for airports that are the airline's hub, future cities and stations that have been terminated.

Like them it would offer a single class of service, operate a single type of aircraft ( the Boeing 737-200 ), and fly a limited network, based at the airline's Baltimore hub.

Additionally, there are labels for airports that are the airline's hub, future, cargo routes and stations that have been terminated.

The airline's main operational base is at Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport ( JED ).

From 1 April 1969, the airline's scheduled operation in London was consolidated at Heathrow, joining Teesside services which had already transferred to London's premier airport from the company's Luton base on 1 November 1967.

The introduction of the TriStar led to an increase in maintenance personnel and the modification of an existing hangar at the airline's Luton base to accommodate the new widebody.

AirAsia executives have new optimism that service between the U. S. and the airline's main base in Kuala Lumpur, could possibly happen earlier than originally expected.

In the 1970s, each district that the airline flew to had an entirely Micronesian employee base, with the exception of Saipan, which housed the airline's headquarters.

These aircraft could not operate from Tempelhof – the airline's West Berlin base at the time – with a viable payload.

Until December 1994, Lufthansa also contracted Euroberlin to operate some of its internal German flights from its new Tegel base, making use of that airline's gates and slots at Tegel as well.

This reduced Dan-Air's presence in Berlin to a single daily scheduled service as well as up to four weekly charter flights linking the airline's Gatwick base with its former overseas base at Tegel.

Having established its main operating base at Northolt, BEA operated its first service from Heathrow in April 1950 ; by late-1954, all Northolt operations had moved to Heathrow, which remained the airline's main operating base until the merger with BOAC in 1974.

Cédric Pastrour, the founder of the airline, said that the company chose the Noisy site because the airline did not yet know which airport, Charles de Gaulle Airport or Orly Airport, would serve as the airline's base, and that the Noisy site was equidistant to both airports.

Caledonian operated its inaugural flight on 29 November 1961 from Gatwick, the newly formed airline's main operating base, to Barbados.

BUA's bid to become the new " Second Force " centred on a six-year expansion plan that envisaged the progressive transfer of all of BOAC's African routes to itself to complement existing African services from the airline's Gatwick base, and unlimited frequencies between Gatwick and New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

Madrid was added as the airline's second base in 2005, followed by their first base outside Spain at Paris Charles de Gaulle in 2007.

On 20 July 2006, the media reported on the airline's intentions to increase its routes from 15 to 20 and to establish a second base city by the end of the year.

The airline's main base is VC Bird International Airport, Antigua and Barbuda, with bases at Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados and Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago.

It even managed to become the preferred carrier of many high-ranking oil industry executives based in Texas, the centre of the global oil industry, by providing convenient, hassle-free connections between Houston / Dallas, Lagos and Tripoli via the airline's Gatwick base.

Pan Am's takeover of Modern Air's Saarbrücken route in February 1972, which entailed serving it from the former's base at the rival Tempelhof Airport with 128-seat Boeing 727-100s, was followed by the airline's unexpected suspension of Tempelhof — Saarbrücken services after less than a year's operation, citing insufficient demand.

The airline's CEO attributes its success to better brand awareness as well as an increased utilisation of aircraft, growing revenue and a broadening of the earning base.

The airline's main operational base was at London Gatwick.

The airline's main base is London Stansted Airport, sometimes referred to as London Airport, where the airport's external and interior shots are filmed.