This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a simpler model where the random shocks influencing flight times are discrete rather than continuous. The analysis yields closed-form solutions for the flight and ground buffers...

We study the link between air accessibility (measured by non-stop flights offer) and the manufacturing export of the Italian regions in Europe using a panel of 12,000 half-yearly observations ranging from 1998 to 2010. The analysis shows that the supply of non-stop flights provided by...

The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to rekindle old debates surrounding the efficacy of craft unionism (as opposed industrial unionism) in the age of globalization in order to provide insight into recent contentions by the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) regarding the...