Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that … public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the sustainability of competition and volatility of airline profits, (b …

This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such … variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on … a route averages thirty-six percent of the airline's average ticket price on the route. The pattern of price dispersion …

The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable public attention and debate since economic … deregulation of the industry in 1978. These concerns have energized economic research on three aspects of airline safety. First …, has the level of airline safety declined since deregulation? Research on this topic investigates whether heightened public …

dynamic airline pricing accounting for both sources of price adjustments using novel flight-level data. I use the model … estimates to evaluate the welfare effects of dynamic airline pricing. Relative to uniform pricing, dynamic pricing benefits …

We study how organizational boundaries affect pricing decisions using comprehensive data from a large U.S. airline. We …

last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle …

The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for … air service offered, not the number of flights offered by a particular airline. We study all major U.S. airline … recognizing that competing airlines may increase service in response to a reduction in flights by a bankrupt airline. We do not …

. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued … and their rivals. The data suggest that an airline's prices typically decline somewhat before it files for bankruptcy … bankrupt airline lower their prices, however, nor that they lose passengers to their bankrupt rival. These results indicate …