Rijken, Daniel; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den - 2017 - Version of 22 Augustus 2017
We investigate the impacts of five airline mergers on one quality dimension, namely route frequency. We use monthly … airlines, the merger is less detrimental to the frequency, possibly because the merger removes serial marginalization in the … decrease the frequency more, possibly due to a larger effect on the market structure. When the merging airlines control all the …