In this paper, we investigate empirically the effect of two recent domestic airline alliances. We find that both …

quality – measured by on-time performance – deteriorates, especially when the airline operates a large share of the flights in …

This paper investigates why passengers pay substantially different fares for travel on the same airline between the … airline price dispersion. We use a unique new dataset to test between two broad classes of theories regarding airline pricing …

This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such … variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on … a route averages thirty-six percent of the airline's average ticket price on the route. The pattern of price dispersion …

The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for … air service offered, not the number of flights offered by a particular airline. We study all major U.S. airline … recognizing that competing airlines may increase service in response to a reduction in flights by a bankrupt airline. We do not …

. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued … and their rivals. The data suggest that an airline's prices typically decline somewhat before it files for bankruptcy … bankrupt airline lower their prices, however, nor that they lose passengers to their bankrupt rival. These results indicate …

A number of recent papers have studied the relationship between price and market structure in the deregulated airline … the industry. The particular entry events that we focus on are those involving People Express Airline in 1984 and 1985. To …