combined to push the industry into a perfect storm. Airline industry profitability has been an elusive goal for several decades … airline business model, successful during the 1980s and 1990s, is now sustainable in a market crowded by low-cost carriers …

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding … new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs …, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be understood as a natural oligopoly, each airline market being …

response to the numerous changes that airlines, aircraft OEMs and their suppliers have experienced over the past few decades … practitioners from consulting companies and the aircraft industry. Taken together, they provide a holistic perspective on the …

Airlines follow different strategies of aircraft sourcing and financing. Basic decisions include the choice of buy … versus lease and long term versus short term acquisition of aircraft. Additional fleet and fleet planning characteristics … include the desired fleet size, average aircraft age, or possible surplus in capacity. Do these variables have an impact on …

, organization, alliances, benchmarking, and antitrust issues. Considering both the airline and the airport perspectives, the book …

Chapter 1. Customer Modeling -- Chapter 2. Airline Planning and Schedule Development -- Chapter 3. Revenue Management … -- Chapter 4. Airline Distribution -- Chapter 5. Crew Management Information Systems -- Chapter 6. Operations -- Chapter 7. Air …This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and …