When the hubs go dark

Wars, drones and detours: why the global flight map is suddenly a mess for digital nomads

For years the invisible architecture of global travel worked almost perfectly.

You could leave Barcelona in the morning, change planes in Dubai or Doha, and wake up somewhere between Bali, Bangkok or Sydney without thinking too much about the logistics behind it. The system functioned because aviation had built a handful of mega-hubs that stitched the wo…