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becomes a potential entrant into airport-pair route markets, and we also calibrate our model to show that it can generate the …
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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 …
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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 …
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Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to … likelihood of continued security-related airport closings, understanding the factors that determine schedule recovery is …
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last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle …, analysts, and researchers -- including high taxes and fuel costs, weak demand, and competition from lower-cost airlines …
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public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the sustainability of competition and volatility of airline profits, (b …Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that … have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major …
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. 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 …
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We estimate a model of service choice and price competition in airline markets, allowing for the carriers that provide …
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Airline transport generates a growing share of global greenhouse gas emissions but as of late 2016, this sector has not … have invested in human and physical capital and an inventory of parts to maintain these vehicles. Each airline chooses …
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We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish conditions under which the equilibrium is unique and converges to a system of differential equations. Using unique and comprehensive pricing and bookings data for competing...
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