The liberalisation movement in European airlines industry was initiated in the late 1980s to create a more competitive environment. This has aimed to result in an increase in efficiency and productivity of the industry. The radical changes which have occurred since then have given risen to the need to evaluate the efficiency in the early phases of the liberalisation process. This study utilises...

Austrian Airlines’ long history of operating as an Austrian owned company has finally come to an end after their poor performance in 2008. This paper analyses the means by which Austrian Airlines has been able to compete globally for so many years in the competitive airlines industry and proposes reasons for their past success. The four components of Michael Porter’s Diamond of National Advanta...

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 for such a capacity competition problem over a network. These two models are base...

Under deregulation, the competition for air general cargo business between all-cargo airlines and combination airlines is foreseeable. This paper proposes a model structure that analyzes the pricing and service strategies between two kinds of carriers within a competitive framework, and evaluates airline profits based on game theory and a microeconomic theory of airline behavior. The model is a...

Low cost carriers (LCCs) market their flights as low cost and so, aim to garner as much additional revenue as possible from ancillary services such as baggage and priority boarding. The airlines therefore encourage purchase of these services by their customers. As a result of this and other practices by airlines, the European Union has introduced legislation to deal with various areas of concer...

This paper presents a framework to analyze global alliances and mergers in the airline industry under competition. The framework can help airlines identify partners and network structures, and help governments predict changes in social welfare before accepting or rejecting proposed mergers or alliances. The research combines profit-maximizing objectives to cost-based network design formulations...

Abstract In view of China’s cargo airlines network, taking the airport each city as node and number flights between cities weight side, network topology index economic are used to evaluate current situation development potential network. Then, TOPSIS method is comprehensively The results show that ranking airline is: China Cargo Airlines, SF Post Jinpeng Longhao Yuantong Airlines. Finally, cons...

As of 2004, the future of the traditional airlines is at stake. By extension, so is the future for their platforms, their airports. Once air transport became open to unregulated competition, many kinds of innovative companies have challenged the ‘legacy’ airlines. Whether the innovators focus on passengers (Southwest, Ryanair), integrated cargo (DHL, Fedex) or the airports themselves (Frankfurt...