This study provides the first empirical assessment of the impact airline delays have on urban employment. While previous works have suggested that road congestion can slow down regional development, the influence of air traffic delays on metro‐level jobs has not been examined comprehensively....

This paper offers a first model of parallel frequent flier programs partnerships, rather typical for the US domestic market. We model these partnerships as arrangements which make carriers' services more substitutable, in a setup where consumers value frequency and exhibit varying degrees of...

International airline markets have the rather unusual feature of partial deregulation with asymmetric regulatory constraints: some carriers face different entry restrictions than others do for a given route. Like domestic air travel, international travel also features hubs, where a single...

Excess capacity poses a persistent challenge for airports as they often encounter lumpy capacity in the short run. The excess capacity is primarily influenced by the factors such as uncertain demand, airline competition, and the market structure of the airport industry. However, airport business...

This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping the data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on nonstop routes on the transatlantic airline market with the information on dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence...

This study separates what is known in the literature as the airport dominance effect (dominant airline's ability to charge higher fares for trips to/from the airport at which it has the dominant position) into what can be interpreted as quality and market power based components, using price data...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measuring the quality of air transport networks - a topology of connectivity and accessibility metrics -- 3 The airport dependency index -- 4...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Editors and contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The evolution of regional air transport connectivity in Europe: a comparison between remote and core regions -- 3 The impacts of airports in geographical...

We approach the issue of the value of a platform to a seller in a two-sided market where both buyers and sellers multi-home. A seller that loses access to a major buyer platform can potentially incur substantial financial losses. We exploit a recent conflict between American Airlines and two...