This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …, the monopoly airline chooses to narrow the gap between its flights, yielding shorter layovers but more congestion. A …

This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a …

airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an undertaking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other …

theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … imposed at selected U.S. airports in the relatively near future. The theory developed in this paper, which extends the results …

an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail …) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its aircraft, average stage length (flight distance); average load factor … (measured by weight); the average vintage (construction year) of its aircraft; the percentage of the airline's flights that are …

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …