The purpose of this paper is to exam the regulatory failures in the Brazilian air transport sector, evidenced by the crisis started after the tragic aircraft crash in 2006.Initially, it presents a historical review of the regulation in the sector, pointing out the legal and infralegal norms and...

We investigate the impacts of five airline mergers on one quality dimension, namely route frequency. We use monthly data on routes between the largest 64 US cities from 1999 to 2016. On average, the mergers decrease the frequency, but there are large differences between the five mergers. We...

Airlines strongly contribute to a tourist destination development by including it in their route portfolio, thus making the destination more visible and accessible. In this regard, airlines may also collaborate with the local destination management organization and be involved in the destination...

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

The following article investigates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's aviation industry. Although the Iranian government has used the aviation industry orders for new modern aircraft to showcase the economic benefits of such agreement, the reality is that...

The aviation sector has mixed impacts on economic development and environmental degradation. Market instruments and regulations are not always sufficient to balance these conflicting demands. Stakeholder engagement has been recognised as a possible non-market and non-regulatory mechanism that...

On-demand air transportation provides passengers a convenient option flying point-to-point directly anytime at their requests. Although it's convenient to customers, this type of non-scheduled service posts great challenge to the management companies, who must serve customer demand by...

The purpose of this paper is to exam the regulatory failures in the Brazilian air transport sector, evidenced by the crisis started after the tragic aircraft crash in 2006.Initially, it presents a historical review of the regulation in the sector, pointing out the legal and infralegal norms and...

The aim of the study is to examine two issues of consumer air travel accessibility in Europe, namely flight time and ticket costs. The first part of the paper discusses the various methodological problems of creating time matrix and cost matrix of air travel. Because of problems of...