The measurement of hub quality is a continuous growing activity with significant innovations that take place in recent years. Therefore, the study based in Latin America, needs some calibrations in most of the accepted methodologies, because of the own particularities of the airline market of the analyzed region. In this sense, basic considerations related with the hub concept are reviewed, because it is useful to make correct interpretations of a term that have multiple meanings. The objective consists on the realization of a comparative analysis of hub quality by studying the temporal concentration of flows, based on indirect online connections. The results of this measurement made over 60 Latin American hubs, shows that it is not possible to make direct relations or general trends in respect to hub operative quality.
airline hub; latin america; operations quality; indirect connections; air transport geography