Winning Airlines: Productivity and Cost Competitiveness of the World's Major Airlines examines the supply side of air transport services, where airline management has considerable control. This volume focuses on fundamental issues related to productivity, input prices, exchange rate dynamics,...

Numerous studies on the aviation industry have confirmed that significant benefits can be brought by liberalizing the international market. After a comprehensive review of the recent studies on this issue, Fu and Oum (2014) concluded that there is strong evidence that liberalisation introduces...

While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countries the major part of intercity transport is performed by car and air and as a result, the...