We document and analyze events that followed bankruptcy of Malév Hungarian Airlines on February 3, 2012. Most of the new services post-bankruptcy came from low-cost point-to-point carriers. Flight frequency offered by such carriers is lower than what was offered by the network airline. Yet,...

This paper investigates hub carriers’ airlines-within-airlines (AinA) strategies, intended to establish low-cost divisions offering nonstop flights on rim routes. An initial hub-spoke network is optimal if passenger differentiation between one-stop and nonstop services and via-hub time cost...