Advantages
- It eliminates the need for connections.
- It considerably reduces travel time.
- Without the need to satisfy connections for passengers, trips (e.g. flights) in a point-to-point system are less interdependent, though the operational constraints of needing to have sufficient equipment and personnel in each location at the right time to satisfy the timetable remain. This minimizes the risk of the "domino effect", in which the delayed arrival of one trip into a place (e.g. airport) leads to delayed departures of the (often) multiple trips with which its passengers had to make connections, cascading delays through the network. Therefore a point-to-point system is less prone to delays.
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