The introduction of the new large aircraft, the Airbus A380, will require investments by airports to enable them to handle it. These investments will be in the nature of sunk costs, such as in widening runways. As such they will pose problems for pricing, cost recovery, and investment...

Among the various factors influencing tourists to visit an overseas country is that of promotion/marketing activity by tourism operators and government tourist commissions in the destination country. The effects of tourism promotion have not previously been subjected to rigorous economic...

This paper examines how climate change policy can impact on competition, prices and profitability in the air transport industry. It begins with an outline of the climate change policies that have been suggested, and it gives particular attention to the inclusion of air transport in an emissions...

Discussions of how changes in exchange rates impact on international airlines tend to be ambivalent. In this paper, it is shown that the relative cost competitiveness of an international airline will decline when there is an exchange rate appreciation in its home country - as will be the case...

The standard approach taken to assessing the economic impacts of special events, using input-output (I-O) modeling, has come under increasing attack in the recent research literature. Critics have argued that both I-O modeling should be replaced by computable general equilibrium modeling and...

This paper develops measures of total factor productivity for Australian domestic air transport over the past two decades, and enables comparisons to be made with the productivity of international airlines. In recent years there has been little by way of measurement of productivity performance...