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 … flights, mergers have almost no impact on the frequency. The second set-up uses the market structure before the merger. When …

We study the consumer welfare effects of mergers in airline networks. Based on the development of a general … America West Airlines - US Airways merger completed in 2005. We find that although average prices increased substantially on … routes in which both airlines competed either on a non-stop or one-stop basis prior to the merger, substantial average price …

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 …’ competitive strategies as well as productive efficiency. Using U.S. DOT T100 International Segment data and applying airline …

percent on the affected routes. -- Airline industry ; merger ; market power ; efficiencies ; entry-inducing effects …We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the … domestic U.S. airline industry. Applying fixed effects regression models we find that the transaction led to short term price …

We study the competitive effects of five liquidations and six mergers in the domestic U.S. airline industry between … larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …

model using data from the domestic US airline market and find significant spillovers in entry. In a counterfactual exercise …, we evaluate the 2013 merger between Amer- ican Airlines and US Airways. Our results highlight that spillovers in entry … and post-merger network readjustments play an important role in shaping post-merger outcomes. …

This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping the … data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on nonstop routes on the transatlantic airline market with the … information on dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence consistent with the airlines operating under antitrust immunity …