In recent decades full-service airlines have targeted price-sensitive passengers, traditionally targeted by low-cost airlines, by promoting their economy class options. This paper aims to guide both types of airlines in promoting their economyclass options by utilizing factors influencing...

With the rise of the digital economy and the depression in the travel industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the feasibility and profitability of innovative products on digital platforms, such as probabilistic selling, have garnered significant public attention. This paper utilizes a Salop...

We develop a two-stage game in which competing airlines first choose the networks of markets to serve in the first stage before competing in price in the second stage. Spillovers in entry decisions across markets are allowed, which accrue on the demand, marginal cost, and fixed cost sides. We...

The relevance of corporate environmental, social, and governance performance (ESG) has increased significantly during the last few years. The airline industry is susceptible to such environmental, social, and governance practices, which explains its selection for the analysis purposes in this...

This paper empirically tests the bottleneck co-ownership theory presented in Boffa and Panzar (2012) by using data in the US airline industry. We present a structural model of codesharing between major airlines and regional airlines. The empirical evidence in this study supports the bottleneck...

COVID-19 has caused substantial disruptions to the airline industry. This paper analyzes the effects of competition variations related to the pandemic on price dispersion. The sample includes ticket information from the DB1B database between 2018Q1 and 2021Q4. The fixed-effect panel instrument...

The airline ticket booking system we are proposing provides total freedom for passengers, where the passenger can use his personal computer to log on to the website and book his ticket. The airline ticket booking system allows only registered users or passengers to reserve flight tickets, view...

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...