The FAA reports that the commercial airline industry flew 713 million passengers in 2010 and is projected to increase to 1.27 billion by 2031. Per the IATA, the airline industry’s global net profit was expected to reach $4.9 billion in 2012, accounting for fifteen million jobs worldwide and...

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

Die globalen Gemeinschaftsgüter wie der internationale Luftraum und die Hohe See werden zunehmend übernutzt, weil die Nutzer nicht die vollen Kosten ihres Handelns tragen müssen. Die CO2-Emissionen des internationalen Flugverkehrs und des Schiffsverkehrs fallen nicht unter die quantitativen...

This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in...