We study the relation of asymmetric pricing with operating performance and stock returns U.S. airlines. construct two proxies to measure degree pricing: Degree Asymmetry (DOA) Peer-adjusted DOA, then simultaneously test how direction magnitude affect airline performance. find that raising air ticket price, regardless whether fuel cost is increasing or decreasing, associated significantly higher...

A body of research in economics, information systems, and marketing has sought to understand sources of price dispersion. Previous empirical work has mainly offered consumerand/or product-based explanations for this phenomenon. In contrast, our research explores the key role played by vendors’ price-format adoption in explaining price dispersion. We empirically analyze over a half-million onlin...

Hidden-city ticket is an interesting airline ticket pricing phenomenon. It occurs when an itinerary connecting at an intermediate city is less expensive than a ticket from the origin to the intermediate city. In such a case, passengers traveling to the intermediate city have an incentive to pretend to be traveling to the final destination, deplane at the connection point and forgo the unused po...

Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) has for a long time been used in transport planning, but it is often questioned. One main argument against CBA is that the results depend largely on assumptions regarding one or a few input factors, as for example the future fuel price or valuation of CO2 emissions. The three papers included in this thesis investigate some aspects of uncertainty in transport CBA calc...

This article explores the development of previous models to determine hubs in a competitive environment. In this paper, by comparing parameters of the ticket price, travel time and the service quality of hub airports, airline hubs are divided into six categories. The degree of importance of travel time and travel cost are determined by a multivariate Lagrange interpolation method, which can pla...

Quality of Service (QoS) routing in computer networks is an important component in QoS architectures in order to provide end-to-end QoS support. Two major issues make QoS routing difficult: (1) Most of the QoS routing problems are NP-hard, such as the Delay Constraint Least Cost Routing (DCLCR) problem; (2) Imprecise network information degrades the routing performance. Using DCLCR problem as a...

We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email or asking for a stock quote). The recipient of such a request (such as the email recipient or the stockbroker) can use the ticker server to verify that the ticket is valid and that the ticket hasn’t been used before. Clients c...

Managing problem tickets is a key issue in IT service industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customers on a daily basis. The efficiency of processing these tickets highly depends on ticket routing—transferring problem tickets among expert groups in search of the right resolver to the ticket. Despite that many ticket management systems are available, ...

Ticket-switching incidents where customers switch the price tag or bar code in order to pay a lower amount for their ‘purchased item’ is not uncommon in retail stores. Since the item has to pass through a check-out counter before leaving the store, it has a (even if miniscule) positive probability of being identified. However, when item-level RFID tags are used in an automated check-out environ...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 243 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................... 245 I. THE ECONOMICS OF TICKET SNIPING ................................... 248 A. Long-term Revenue Maximization ....................................... 249 B. Inability to Price Discriminate .........