The empirical evidence shows that travel time is crucial for rail transport to be a competitor to air transport. However, there are no papers testing whether travel time has a direct effect on airline pricing. This paper is a step towards filling this gap. We test and quantify the effect of rail travel time on airline fares, using unique data at flight-level. We find that airlines design pricin...

S articles have been written during the past few years examining performance improvement paths and various forms of efficiency frontiers in operations strategy. These articles focus primarily on defining and describing these frontiers and raise questions concerning how to improve operations. In this paper, we provide one of the first empirical studies aimed at validating these earlier studies. ...

The appearance of LCA model in recent decades has rapidly penetrated into airline markets. Passengers have more options for their travel. Many people believe that low fares mean low quality. However, some of them argue that LCA can deliver good quality as FCA does. LCA providers always find ways to prove to their customers that it offers low prices but not low quality. Many studies have been ex...

Title of Dissertation: Fair Allocation Concepts in Air Traffic Management Thomas W.M. Vossen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2002 Dissertation directed by: Professor M.O. Ball R.H. Smith School of Business Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the major airlines in the U.S. have embraced a new initiative to improve Air Traffic Flow Management. This initiative, called Collaborative Deci...

We consider capacity management games between airlines who transport passengers over a joint airline network. Passengers are likely to purchase alternative tickets of the same class from competing airlines if they do not get tickets from their preferred airlines. We propose a Nash and a generalized Nash game model to address the competitive network revenue management problem. These two models a...

Airlines are increasingly using regional jets to better match aircraft size to high value demand markets, and reduce labor costs. This has been especially important due to the increased pressure on the industry following September 11 2001, because airlines see regional jets as a major part of their financial recovery plan. The increase in regional jets represents a significant change from tradi...

With the rapid development of airlines, airports today become much busier and more complicated than previous days. During airlines daily operations, assigning the available gates to the arriving aircrafts based on the fixed schedule is a very important issue, which motivates researchers to study and solve Airport Gate Assignment Problems (AGAP) with all kinds of state-of-the-art combinatorial o...

SUMMARY Due to the internet and E-commerce booming, many airline companies are attempting to stimulate customers to shift from traditional distribution channels to online channels. Therefore, Web site quality, trust, usefulness, enjoyment and social pressure are now considered a critical factor in attracting customers' attention and build loyalty. This paper proposes factors that Drives consume...

Introduction The Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) of 1978 caused many changes in the industry. For the first time in 40 years, new airlines were permitted to enter the industry, and all airlines could choose the routes they would serve and the fares they would charge. Airlines were also free to exit the industry (go bankrupt), if they made poor choices in these matters. Naturally, this has led to...