A liberalised South African airline industry: Measuring airline total-factor productivity

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Next to fuel costs, crew costs are the largest direct operating cost of airlines. Therefore much research has been devoted to the planning and scheduling of crews over the last thirty years. The planning and scheduling of crews is usually considered as two problems: the crew pairing problem and the crew assignment (rostering) problem. These problems are solved sequentially. In this paper we foc...

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Applications of Total Quality Management in Indian Airline Industry

Total quality management (TQM) is an integrated management approach that aim to continuously improve the performance of products, processes, and services to achieve and surpass customer’s expectations. This paper investigates Critical success factor for TQM Implementation in Indian airline industry in order to improve the performance and identify the main impediments of implementing TQM success...

Measuring Safety Culture in the Australian Regional Airline Industry: the Development of the Airline Safety Culture Index (asci)

The recognition of the integral role that human and organisational factors play in accident causation has led to a recent focus on identifying the elements that best represent safety culture. However, previous attempts to measure safety culture have produced disparate results and have been criticised for a lack of theoretical grounding. Subsequently the aims of the present study were, to develo...

Competitive Innovation in the U.S. Airline Industry

Innovation in the U.S. airline industry offers lessons in the role that the interplay of competitive forces can play in economic progress. The quarter-century following deregulation saw many attempts at innovation, some of which were adopted for a time and then replaced by other innovations. After two decades of upheaval and evolution the airline industry has been reshaped along the lines of lo...