In this study, we document and analyze price-offer curves (the dynamics of offered prices as the departure date approaches) for 105 specific round trip itineraries on 50 busy US routes. The data were collected from the three leading on-line travel agents' web-sites. We exploit across-route...

International airline markets have the rather unusual feature of partial deregulation with asymmetric regulatory constraints: some carriers face different entry restrictions than others do for a given route. Like domestic air travel, international travel also features hubs, where a single...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measuring the quality of air transport networks - a topology of connectivity and accessibility metrics -- 3 The airport dependency index -- 4...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Editors and contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The evolution of regional air transport connectivity in Europe: a comparison between remote and core regions -- 3 The impacts of airports in geographical...

In the last two decades, airline alliances were not only successful in extending the size of their networks, but also received approvals by public authorities to intensify their cooperation through to merger-like revenue-sharing joint ventures (JVs). We empirically investigate the impact of the...