This paper addresses the problem of hub airport privatization, similar to the studies by Matsumura and Matsushima (2012) and Mantin (2012). However, differentiating from their papers, this paper introduces a domestic airline network. That is, each country has one major hub airport and some local...

Over the last decade the airline industry has experienced extreme financial adversity. Whilst external low probability but high impact factors have been partially to blame some airlines have done worse than others. Predicting differences in airlines' financial performance is of interest for...

When discussing airline strategy in the 21st century, the first reflection that comes to the mind is probably alliance cooperation and membership as a relatively new phenomenon that arose out of significant changes and challenges in aviation industry. The modern, globalized economy, largely...

Purpose – In the air transportation industry people are paying an increasing attention to the service quality, which became in recent years an important marketing requirement as a consequence of the highly competitive market among air carriers. The general objective of this paper is to analyze...

The airline industry is characterized not only by the large number of carriers, but also an abundance of perplexing terms in their classification. "National carriers", "Network carriers", "Regional carriers", and "Low cost carriers" are some to name a few. Adding to the complexity is the fact...

Even if one is sympathetic to the idea of helping industries in times of crisis, the critical question to ask is, Are there more effective ways to resolve a company's financial problems than a taxpayer-funded bailout?While the airline industry is always fast to request a bailout, such a bailout...

This article describes the factors supporting inter-firm cooperation in the form of international airline alliances. It presents the benefits of such cooperative agreements by drawing conclusions from related empirical literature examination under a structure-conduct-performance paradigm. The...

This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long sample period, which runs from 1997 to 2016, and it supplements the usual USDOT fare data with confidential fare data reported by the foreign alliance partners of US carriers....

The case attempts to explore the loopholes in the system which allowed Vijay Malaya who lived a flamboyant life, was a member of the Rajya Sabha and the chairman of a giant company, to flee from India even when Kingfisher Airlines was grounded (Kingfisher Airlines founded in 2005 went bust in...