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In today's Straits Times:
City of flight: Paris rated the most vital connecting point for international air travel, according to study. Singapore comes in fourth after Anchorage, Alaska, which came in a surprising second on the list, and London.

However, close analysis of the actual paper published by Prof Luis Amaral shows that Singapore was rated highly in "betweenness".It just means that Singapore, by dint of its location faciliates connections between various communities in the area, and is therefore among the most "central", along with Paris, Anchorage and London. The paper (not ST) also indicates that Singapore, along with Anchorage and Port Moresby (which was 9th on the list) were anomalies in that they were nowhere among the most connected cities in the world. That honour went to Paris, London and Frankfurt with scores of (respectively) 250, 242 and 237. Singapore received a score of 92, lower than Hong Kong and Seoul.

Does this mean that Singapore is not exploiting its location well enough, and that HK and Seoul (which are far below in centrality) are better using whatever meagre advantage they have? Singapore already has open-skies, what more can it do?

Or does this have any implication at all for us? Hm. Need to think about this.