Passengers’ expectations of service quality at airports are becoming increasingly important as air traffic grows … regarding the importance of services offered by airports and of the level of performance at ORTIA in particular. Significant …

The lack of airport slots (the time allocated for an aircraft to land or take off), particularly at airports which …) records that, by the end of 1997, there were 132 slot controlled international airports. The World of Civil Aviation, 1997â … airports, calling for drastic management of airport capacity. To cope with the demand, airlines are forming strategic alliances …

This short communication evaluates the influence of congestion on the technical efficiency of airports using three … different approaches. To accomplish this aim a sample of 141 worldwide airports is used. The results show considerable signs of … congestion inefficiency in some airports, highlighting the importance of studying this phenomenon. …

In this paper, the random stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the technical efficiency of UK airports. The … airports are ranked according to their productivity for the period 2000–2005 and homogenous and heterogeneous variables in … the cost function are disentangled. These changes the ranking of the efficiency of UK airports compared to more …

performance. Automated baggage systems are risky. Airlines and airports considering their use should assess their design …

flights where a cubic cost relationship was estimated. The findings are comparable with earlier studies for US airports. …

positive contribution of outsourcing and non-aeronautical revenues on the efficiency of the Spanish airports' network. …

Previous efforts to model the distribution of passenger traffic between airports in a multi-airport system have focused … on ‘catchment areas’ associated with competing airports, which generally do not change in the short to medium term … of changes in relative airline fares and service frequency at competing airports serving the same metropolitan area. In …

Small and regional airports frequently suffer from limited traffic given minimum fixed infrastructure requirements and … insufficient revenues to cover their costs. The question is whether such airports could be structured, managed and possibly … airports on subsidies or the likelihood of foreclosure. This paper applies data envelopment analysis, assuming that the …