Spokane and Savannah are about 2,180 miles apart, and Midway’s route data lists seven destinations both cities reach nonstop (no change of plane). Each is a hub or a large base of a US airline: Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare and Chicago Midway, Dallas-Fort Worth and Dallas Love Field, Denver, and Minneapolis. Atlanta is about 215 miles from Savannah and nearly 2,000 from Spokane. It is on the list because Delta flies to both cities from its main hub.
This page looks at four pairs of smaller cities, in North America, Europe, the Gulf and Asia, and at which hubs make up the list of destinations each pair shares. The figures come from Midway’s route data as of October 2026, which covers the next twelve months of schedules for the 600 busiest airports. A destination counts as shared when both airports have a nonstop to it in at least one of those months, which is the rule Midway applies to a search. A city’s own destination count is rounded to the nearest 5, and the shared lists are short enough to name in full.
See every destination Spokane and Savannah both reach nonstop
What a hub adds to a shared list
An airline hub is an airport where one carrier concentrates its network, so that passengers from many smaller cities can connect there. To make that work, the airline flies nonstop from the hub to a long list of smaller airports, including ones with few other routes. Atlanta, Delta’s main hub, has nonstops to around 245 destinations in Midway’s data.
A smaller airport’s own route list is mostly a list of hubs. Spokane has nonstops to around 25 destinations and Savannah to around 40. Two smaller cities rarely share a route to a third smaller city, so what they have in common is the hubs, where each airline flies to both. For the pairs on this page, hubs make up most of the shared list, and for three of the four they make up all of it.
The same logic explains why a shared destination can sit far from both home cities, or right next to one of them. A hub’s route map follows the airline’s network, not the distance between the two people meeting. The cost is that a hub near one person is a short hop for them and a long flight for the other.
North America: Spokane and Savannah
Five of the seven shared destinations have nonstops from both cities all year: Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and Minneapolis. Southwest flies from Spokane to Chicago Midway only from June to August 2027 and to Dallas Love Field only in June and July. For most of the year, the shared list is five airports, each a hub for Delta, United or American.
The flying time splits very differently between them. Minneapolis is the most even, at about 2h50 to 3h05 from Spokane and 3h05 to 3h15 from Savannah, with Delta on both routes. Atlanta is the least even, at about 4h20 to 4h30 from Spokane and 1h10 to 1h20 from Savannah. Denver tilts the other way, at about 2h15 to 2h25 from Spokane and 3h40 to 4h15 from Savannah. The most connected US cities guide ranks these hubs by their own route counts.
Europe: Trondheim and Seville
Trondheim has nonstops to around 30 destinations and Seville to around 100, and the two share nine. Six are network hubs or large airline bases: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda and London Gatwick. The other three, Alicante, Gran Canaria and Kraków, are on the list because low-cost and leisure routes from both cities go there. That mix is typical of Europe, where Ryanair, easyJet, Norwegian and Vueling run point-to-point routes that a hub network would not.
The hub airline does not have to fly both legs. KLM flies to Amsterdam from Trondheim, but the Seville flights are Transavia and easyJet. Many routes on this list are also seasonal. Trondheim’s Frankfurt flight runs only from May to September 2027, and Seville’s Stockholm flight only in March and April 2027. Four destinations have nonstops from both cities all year: Amsterdam, London Gatwick, Alicante and Kraków. London Gatwick also gives the closest split, at about 2h35 to 2h40 from Trondheim and 2h45 from Seville.
The most connected cities in Europe guide covers the rest of the European network, including how the low-cost carriers change it.
The Gulf: Dublin and Kochi
Dublin has nonstops to around 200 destinations and Kochi to around 30, and the two share three: Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi. Each is the hub of one airline (Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad), and that airline is the only one flying the route from Dublin. From Kochi, Indian carriers such as IndiGo and Air India Express fly to the same three cities. All six routes run all year.
None of the three splits the flying evenly, because the Gulf sits much closer to South India than to Ireland. The flights take about 6h55 to 7h35 from Dublin and about 4h to 4h40 from Kochi, and Doha has the smallest gap. Lisbon and Kochi share the same three hubs and nothing else. Budapest and Kochi add two more airports in Gulf states, Jeddah and Kuwait City. For reference, Dubai has nonstops to around 255 destinations, Doha to around 180 and Abu Dhabi to around 155.
Asia: Fukuoka and Surabaya
Fukuoka has nonstops to around 45 destinations and Surabaya to around 40. They share three, Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, the home bases of Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Malaysia Airlines. All three have nonstops from both cities all year. Hong Kong gives the closest split, at about 3h45 to 4h10 from Fukuoka and 4h55 to 5h from Surabaya. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are short flights from Surabaya, about 2h20 to 2h40, and about 6 to 6h45 from Fukuoka.
Sapporo, further north in Japan, shows how much the month matters. Sapporo and Surabaya share the same three hubs over the year, but Singapore runs from Sapporo only from December 2026 to February 2027, and Kuala Lumpur only from October 2026 to March 2027. From April to September 2027, Hong Kong is the only destination both cities reach nonstop. The most connected cities in Asia-Pacific guide covers the region’s hubs, including the Gulf.
Check which hubs Fukuoka and Surabaya share in a given month
The four pairs side by side
| Home cities | Miles apart | Shared nonstop destinations | Hubs or large bases on the list | Closest split by flight time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spokane and Savannah | 2,180 | 7 | 7 | Minneapolis |
| Trondheim and Seville | 1,930 | 9 | 6 | London Gatwick |
| Dublin and Kochi | 5,350 | 3 | 3 | Doha |
| Fukuoka and Surabaya | 3,060 | 3 | 3 | Hong Kong |
Shared means a nonstop from both airports in at least one of the next twelve months, from Midway’s route data as of October 2026. The shared counts are exact, not rounded. Distances are great-circle miles rounded to the nearest 10, and the closest split compares the shortest flight time from each city.
Choosing among the hubs
A shared list made of hubs settles who can get there without a connection. It does not settle which hub is a good place to spend a weekend, what the fares are, or whether one person flies four times as long as the other. Midway shows the flight time from each city for every destination on the list, and its month filter removes the routes that are not running. The pillar guide to meeting in the middle covers how to narrow the list from there.
Enter your cities in Midway to see every destination all of you reach nonstop, with the flight time from each city.