We explore how an incumbent airline firm structures its route network under the threat of entry caused by deregulation …. We show that entry induces the incumbent firm to strategically alter its flight operating network from a fully connected … incumbent firm when it faces a threat of entry in its operating zone. …

a pan-European basis; and the increasing use of the internet which has reduced the costs of entry for airlines into …

Deregulation provides a natural experiment for examining how governance adapts to structural change in the business … composition--in the U.S. airline industry during a 22- year period surrounding the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Consistent … with theory, we find that after deregulation 1) equity ownership is more concentrated; 2) CEO pay increases; 3) stock …

The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions … also affected entry positively. For non-stop entry into a route that has not been served on a non-stop basis before, our … network carriers. Non-stop entry into existing non-stop markets, however, shows that JetBlue concentrated on longer …

The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions … also affected entry positively. For non-stop entry into a route that has not been served on a non-stop basis before, our … network carriers. Non-stop entry into existing non-stop markets, however, shows that JetBlue concentrated on longer …