This paper examines the relationship between the control of airport slots by major airlines and their incentives to engage in service quality. We investigate a set of airline strategies regarding possible practices of slot hoarding and slot concentration through mergers aiming at erecting...

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...

Flight timetabling can greatly impact an airline's operating profit, yet data-driven or model-based solutions to support it remain limited. Timetabling optimization is significantly complicated by two factors. First, it exhibits strong interdependencies with subsequent fleet assignment decisions...

This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A continuous spatial model illustrates this trade-off in a framework where a small gap between flight operating times raises congestion while also shortening a connecting...

This paper studies uniform-price auctions for multiple units of airport slots in which the airlines purchase slots for take-off and landing at an airport. It considers strategic behavior on the part of bidding airlines and on the part of airport authority, who acts as a seller and decides supply...

Flight delays are a one of the most costly issues for the US air travel system. Currently, for all the local flights across the US, ~25% flights arrive more than 15 minutes later than scheduled. This leads to significant cost for airports, airlines and passengers. Here, we study one of the...