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 … airports will always lead to more overcharge, whereas privatizing only the hub airport or all airports could result in lesser …

This paper investigates optimal airport pricing when airlines provide imperfect substitutes products, and make … and does not require leadership behavior. We also find that an airport requires two pricing instruments to achieve the …