Airline Unions Since Deregulation: The Views of Selected Airline Unions

Unions and Wages in the Us Airline Industry

Labor unions play a critical role in the US airline industry. About half of all workers in the air transportation industry are unionized, 49.3% of workers being union members and 51.6% being covered by collective bargaining agreements in 2006. Apart from Delta, all major US carriers are highly unionized, while national and regional carriers include a mix of union and nonunion workplaces. In con...

Airline Deregulation and Privatization in the Uk

"Don't Panic"': A Primer on Airline Deregulation

The old dictum says that if the Devil did not exist, the Church would have had to invent him. Similarly, if the regulator didn't exist, the airline industry would have had to invent him-and did in 1938. A current question is what would happen to the industry were it totally deregulated. One thesis is that there would be a rush by existing and new entrants to those routes thought to be profitabl...

The effect of airline deregulation on automobile fatalities.

This paper attempts to quantify the effects of airline deregulation in the United States on intercity automobile travel and consequently on the number of highway fatalities. A demand model is constructed for auto travel, which includes variables representing the price and availability of air service. A reduced form model of the airline market is then estimated. Finding that deregulation has dec...

Collude, Compete, or Both? Deregulation in the Norwegian Airline Industry

The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on prices and capacities (competition), collude on prices and capacities (collusion) or collude on prices and compete on capacities (semicollusion)? We reject the hypothesis that th...