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Intercontinental air traffic is unevenly distributed between secondary European airports. While a few airports offer a …. Consequently, long runways at many secondary airports are underutilized and thus not economically viable. …
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performance. Automated baggage systems are risky. Airlines and airports considering their use should assess their design … operating near capacity. United Airlines will thus make the Denver system ‘work’ by drastically reducing its complexity and …
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alliances involving passenger airlines and airports. Following a conceptual path analyzing motives, potential benefits and …Strategic alliances are now widespread. This paper shifts the focus from alliances among airlines toward strategic …
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radial route systems, spatially concentrated around a small number of central airports or ‘hubs’. This paper investigates … concentration trend of European traffic on a small number of hubs can only be observed for some regional airlines. …
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In the past few decades many countries have increased the presence of various forms of private sector involvement in airport ownership and management. This paper focuses on the financial performance of Italian airport companies. We present empirical evidence separately for two groups where...
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Many airports suffer from peak-load demand problems. To meet unconstrained demand at peak periods, they often invest in … congestion at airport terminals. The results suggest that a situation in which airports differentiate charges by peak and off …
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costs and benefits of security measures to decide the optimal security measures to airports. Monte-Carlo simulation methods … efforts to further protect airports are sensible expenditures. Indeed, some relaxation of the measures already in place may …
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paper examines the ways in which BAA (formerly the British Airports Authority) has improved efficiency in the management of … airport waste. The paper also considers why, despite these improvements, UK airports still lag behind some European airports …
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This paper describes a simple method for comparing airports based on their accessibility to regional, continental or … airports for the years 2000, 2003 and 2005 and compares the performance of these airports in serving the UK/Ireland, Western … regional groupings of airports in differing regional contexts, in situations where very limited demographic and socio …
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This article focuses on the potential of airports to aid regeneration of depressed areas rather than their more widely … obtain jobs at airports. Airports with good air services can help less buoyant areas to be short listed by potential inward …
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