This paper studies the coordinated effects of the merger between American Airlines and USAirways by examining the … extent to which the connecting prices of the nonmerging legacy carriers(Delta and United) evolved when the merger eliminated … potential importance of connecting services in merger analysis in the airlineindustry …

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 …

merged airline would offer direct flights in 10% more markets while the overall post-merger price effect would likely be …The Hub-and-Spoke network is a defining feature of the airline industry. This paper is among the first in the … merger, the paper proposes a novel equilibrium concept that makes it feasible to compute the industry equilibria …

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 …

, I exploit variation in product market contestability in the U.S. airline industry. First, I find that increasing …

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 …