In Japan, supply-demand adjustments for aviation regulation were abolished under the revised Aviation Law of February 2000. This act of deregulation provided airline companies the freedom to set airfares and enter into or withdraw from any route. Competition after deregulation brought many...

This study discusses a method that overcomes the size limitations in solving large size multilevel hierarchical hub location problem with a single allocation by using a stepwise solving approach called CM-GATS. This model uses a clustering algorithm to divide a given network into several small...

This paper presents evidence on the nature of competition in the post-deregulation U.S. air travel market. It begins with an historical review of the U.S. market since deregulation. An econometric study of domestic air fares for 1995 and 2000 is used to address the following questions: How does...

There has been a global trend to remove many of the traditional regulations governing the way that airlines services are provided. This has been a response to the demonstrable inefficiencies that accompanied such things as rate controls and market capacity limits. The outcome has largely been...