Much of the literature on the airline industry identifies a potential entrant to a market based on whether the relevant …

market competition. In markets with effective competition, horizontal multiple directorships turn out to be an efficient … firms have no significant influence on financial performance, irrespective of the level of competition intensity …

We show that monopoly is better than competition in term of social welfare for low frequency routes. Competition … affects both flight schedules and airfares. Flight schedules get un-even interval by competition and this leads to large … increment of SDC by competition overwhelms the decreasing in the airfare, so monopoly is better than competition. …

1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the link between airline traffic and local economic growth. Using …, we exploit time variation in long-run growth rates to identify the effects of airline traffic on population, income and …

Linear demand formulations for price competition in horizontally differentiated products are sometimes used to compare …