Flight routes from a hub, with particles

Every route out of Dubai (OpenFlights) streaming as particles and rising into the air under an orbit.

1. A World map (Mercator raster, or a globe). Pins for the hub and the destinations.
2. Elements → Hubs: Hub, Direction Out from the hub, pick the places (All), Shape Great circle, Draw as: Both (the lines draw on, then particles stream along them), Stagger 0.2 s, Line options → Arrowhead Arrow, Distance label with Flight time. Connect.
3. For arcs that rise into the air: on a flat map, add a tilted camera (Fly to with Tilt 40°) and set Height (%) in the Hubs section (for example 30); on the globe, great circles lift off the sphere with Height.
4. Curved lines with several Streams fill the space between two places with nested arcs that never cross.

With Atlas MCP: add_pins, then connect_places with hub, shape: "great", drawAs: "both", arrowheads, distances; streams, bend and spacing for curved families; fly_to with tilt for the camera. The Height slider is (panel): Elements → Arcs or Hubs → Height (%).

A table of thousands of routes (an airline routes file): Data → Import a file → Arcs → As One layer (the heaviest pairs), Draw as Particles or Both (import_file with as: "arcs", arcsAs: "layer"). Fetch OpenFlights airports from Open data first so airport codes resolve.