This paper explores commercial issues surrounding managing airports in New Zealand. Airport managers face pressures from changing airport–airline relationships, low cost airlines, proposed new airports and the growing importance of non-aeronautical revenues in achieving commercial goals....

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the international development of the low cost airline model. The paper examines and seeksto characterize the factors which have encouraged and inhibited the spatial and temporal spread of low cost carriers. A typology oflow cost carriers is developed to...

Since their emergence in the US in the mid-1970s there has been significant growth in the low-cost airline sector but with a few notableexceptions low-cost airlines have operated on short-haul routes. This paper examines the extent to which the low-cost model is, or couldbe, applicable to...

The so called low cost model has proved to be financially and operationally robust fora number of short haul airline operations in various regions world-wide and airportshave responded to the potential opportunities that have arisen by the growth of lowcost airlines. The low cost model has...

This paper evaluates changes made to the internal assessment component of a third year financial accounting course at a university in New Zealand. A learning portfolio was designed to supplement existing coursework. The aim was to engender in students a deep rather than a surface approach to...

The extent to which management accountants are receiving appropriate training in quantitative methods is examined. It finds a disparity between the wide range of quantitative techniques covered within the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants' syllabi and the limited use made of many of...