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Systematic peak-load pricing, congestion premia and demand diverting: Empirical evidence from airlines

Escobari, Diego - In: Economics Letters 103 (2009) 1, pp. 59-61

This paper finds empirical support to systematic peak-load pricing in airlines---higher fares in ex-ante known …

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Air accessibility and the export of Italian manufacture in Europe: Evidence at regional level

Alderighi, Marco - 2013

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...

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Product Unbundling in the Travel Industry: The Economics of Airline Bag Fees

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013

This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product unbundling. The theory predicts that an airline's fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price (the bag fee plus the new fare) could either rise or...

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The Economics of Airport Congestion Pricing

Pels, Eric; Verhoef, Erik - 2003

pricing that captures a number of these features. The model in particular reflects (1) that airlines typically have market …

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The Home Carrier Advantage in Civil Aviation

Lijesen, Mark; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric - 2005

This paper analyzes the relative economic power position of home carriers in hub-and-spoke systems. Hub-and-spoke systems may lower costs on densely traveled routes and enable economically viable operations on less densely traveled routes. The reverse side is probably that carriers enjoy...

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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition

Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008

-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost carriers, maximize profit functions via prices, frequency and train …

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A look at Airline Management as Event Management: About the challenging task of trying to run a profitable Airline

Brützel, Christoph; Schulke, Arne - 2019

Warren Buffett once famously stated that airlines were infamous for destroying shareholder value . His hindsight … explain the difficulties most airlines have to tackle on a daily basis. The idea of aviation management as event management is … complex to produce. This underlying conundrum is one of the central challenges airlines need to confront when trying - hard at …

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The Impact of Airline Mergers on Quality: Why Do Different Mergers Have Such Different Effects?

Rijken, Daniel; van den Berg, Vincent (V.A.C.) - 2017

airlines, the merger is less detrimental to the frequency, possibly because the merger removes serial marginalization in the … decrease the frequency more, possibly due to a larger effect on the market structure. When the merging airlines control all the …

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The total size of an airline and the quality of its flights

van Montfort, Joep; van den Berg, Vincent A.C. - 2017

delay occurrence. Hence, larger airlines seem to offer a higher quality in terms of delays. We also find that an origin …

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An Analysis of Dynamic Price Discrimination in Airlines

Escobari, Diego; Rupp, Nicholas G.; Meskey, Joseph - In: Southern Economic Journal 85 (2018) 3, pp. 639-662

Prices for the same flight change substantially depending on the time of purchase. This paper uses a unique dataset with round-the-clock posted fares to document significant within-day price variation. Labeling time-variation as discriminatory is difficult because the cost of an unsold airline...

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