Empirical Structural Analysis on Chinese Airline Network

With the fast development of the society economy in recent years, the Chinese aviation network is playing a more and more critical and irreplaceable developing role in today’s integrated transportation system. In this paper, an empirical structural analysis of Chinese airline network is made utilizing complex network theory. The results show that the presented network is a small network with two regime pow-law degree distribution. Meanwhile, the betweenness-degree relevance takes a positive correlated relationship, while its node average degree-degree relevance is obviously negative assortative reflecting high degree nodes preferring to relate to small degree nodes, and the clustering coefficient distribution between degree follows negative correlated relationship reflecting node with small degree tends to cluster into group.