This article investigates airline pricing and airport congestion charges in hub-spoke networks. When a public hub airport and two public spoke (local) airports independently levy their charges, airlines will eventually set a ticket price that overcharges the passengers for congestion delay cost...

This study investigates the pricing regime choices between per-flight and/or per-passenger charges for international airports. Each country may choose (i) mix charges for per-flight and per-passenger charges, (ii) per-flight charges only, (iii) per-passenger charges only, and (iv)...

This study investigates airport congestion pricing and capacity investment with cost recovery consideration. Two countries’ airports are interlinked and served by each country’s home carrier. Our global welfare maximization shows that when per-passenger subsidies are not feasible under...