This two-part paper presents the development of an improved airport risk assessmentmethodology aimed at assessing risks related to aircraft accidents at and in the vicinityof airports and managing Airport Safety Areas (ASAs) as a risk mitigation measure.The improved methodology is more...

In response to increasing demand, airlines may increase capacity by increasing the frequency of flights or they may choose to increase aircraft size. This may yield operating cost economies. If the airports they operate from are capacity constrained, they will be limited in the extent that they...

This paper is concerned with normalising runway overrun aircraft accident data so as to allow all accident data to be properly relevant to any overrun accident investigation. This task is part of a wider research task that addresses the need for models to assess the risk of aircraft operations...

Airport planners need to know the forecast demand on the facilities provided airside at airports. For this they need to know how airlines will deal with traffic in terms of the size of aircraft and frequency of service. In response to increasing demand, airlines may increase capacity by...

This work uses data from Civil Aviation Authority surveys to develop a methodology to model air trip generation within the Midlands region and air trip distribution between available airports. The technique applied in the modelling of air trip generation is that of propensity to fly, whereby the...

This paper, after providing an introduction to the operating context of low cost carriers in Europe,examines the competitive pricing behaviour of airlines. Data is collected by route for cases where morethan one airline is in direct competition. Data on fares is obtained from the internet for...

This paper reviews the theory of cost recovery and oligopoly with a view toadvancing some judgements as to the way in which European low cost airlinesmanage yield, depending upon the market morphology that applies. It would appearthat operators offering a scheduled service to a destination not...

Ryanair tends to operate to destinations from its UK bases that are not the main airports in the countrybeing served and in this it differs from many other European low cost carriers. Although directcompetition is not provided in the way that rival services operate between identical pairs of...