Research Article
Community Detection in Airline Networks: An Empirical Analysis of American vs. Southwest Airlines
Table 2
Community analysis of the SWA network.
| SWA | Key airports | Core community | | Size | Degree | Internal edges | external edges |
| | DEN, LAS, OAK | √ | 0.75 | 11 | 366 | 50 | 266 | | LAX, PHX, SAN | √ | 0.69 | 6 | 148 | 15 | 118 | | MDW | | 0.61 | 5 | 145 | 10 | 125 | | ATL, HOU, MCO | √ | 0.77 | 9 | 280 | 36 | 208 | | BWI | | 0.51 | 5 | 174 | 10 | 154 | | STL | | 0.43 | 3 | 86 | 3 | 80 |
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