The Global Airline Industry

Intro -- Aerospace Series List -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview -- 1.1 Introduction: The Global Airline Industry -- 1.2 Overview of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background on the International Regulatory Environment -- 2.3 Airline Privatization and International Economic Regulation -- 2.4 Airports -- 2.5 Air Traffic Management -- 2.6 Key Organizations and Their Roles -- 2.7 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand -- 3.1 Airline Terminology and Definitions -- 3.2 Air Transportation Markets -- 3.3 Origin-Destination Market Demand -- 3.4 Air Travel Demand Models -- 3.5 Airline Competition and Market Share -- 3.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Airline Pricing Theory and Practice -- 4.1 Airline Prices and O-D Markets -- 4.2 Differential Pricing -- 4.3 Recent Trends in Airline Pricing -- 4.4 Airline Pricing Strategies -- References -- Chapter 5: Airline Revenue Management -- 5.1 Computerized Revenue Management Systems -- 5.2 Flight Overbooking -- 5.3 EMSR Model for Flight Leg Revenue Optimization -- 5.4 Network Revenue Management -- 5.5 Revenue Management for Less Restricted Fare Structures -- References -- Chapter 6: Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity -- 6.1 Airline Cost Categorization -- 6.2 Operating Expense Comparisons -- 6.3 Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs -- 6.4 Measures of Airline Productivity -- References -- Chapter 7: The Airline Planning Process -- 7.1 Fleet Planning -- 7.2 Route Planning -- 7.3 Airline Schedule Development -- 7.4 The Future: Integrated Airline Planning -- References -- Chapter 8: Airline Schedule Optimization.