A well laid out air transport network is the key to the development of the civil aviation industry.Hub airports, as important nodes in the air transport network, play an important role in the airport network. Based on the super-efficient slacks-based measure (SBM)model and Malmquist model, a sample of 39 hub airports in China from 2017 to 2022 is selected for static and dynamic analysis. The results show that the productivity of China's hub airports is in the "ineffective" stage during the study period, and that the productivity of international airports has decreased more than that of regional hub airports due to the COVID-19, with hub airports belonging to the East China Airport Cluster being the most affected by the COVID-19 and hub airports in the Northwest China Airport Cluster having the lowest efficiency before the COVID-19 but the least decrease.