Plans for a large new international airport propose that aircraft in need of maintenance must be towed to facilities across active aprons. An investigation is carried out for peak hour traffic of the likely amount of conflict between towed aircraft and arriving and departing aircraft. On the...

The Southwest effect has been known for some time in terms of the US airline's impact on pricing, competition and traffic volumes. But recent estimates of the impact on traffic and market shares do not exist. This desideratum can be addressed by applying autoregressive integrated moving average...

This paper introduces the concept of incentive schemes that may accompany airports' aeronautical charging policies and develops a taxonomy of such schemes based on an analysis of data for 46 European Airports held in the RDC Aviation database.11www.rdcaviation.com. This taxonomy details the...

This paper examines the impact of airline alliances on traffic of the constituent airlines using an analysis of US Bureau of Transportation Statistics T-100 International Market Data on a monthly basis for five routes to the US from European hubs. The European hubs are Frankfurt and Paris. The...

The advent of the EU–US Open Skies Agreement has been widely anticipated. A number of consequences have been predicted, for example, impacts on fares, on passenger volumes, choice and on consumer welfare. Airline costs are also predicted to fall as a result of increased competitiveness...

This paper examines the reasons behind Australia’s good record for commercial jet aircraft operations. The results indicate a complex system of factors ranging from the anecdotal theories on weather, terrain, traffic density and luck together with deeper human factors issues such as the...

This paper investigates transfer baggage performance when British Airways’ occupancy of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport took place. Operational data on transfer baggage performance are collated from BA performance scorecards and the Gini coefficient is used as a measure of...