An eco-label for the airline industry?

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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...

Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry∗

The U.S. airline industry went through tremendous turmoil in the early 2000’s. There were four major bankruptcies and two major mergers, with all legacy carriers reporting a large profit reduction. This paper presents a structural model of the airline industry, and estimates the impact of demand and supply changes on profitability. We find that, compared with the late 1990s, in 2006, a) air-tra...

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Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry

The U.S. airline industry went through tremendous turmoil in the early 2000’s. There were four major bankruptcies and two major mergers, with all legacy carriers reporting a large profit reduction. This paper presents a structural model of the airline industry, and estimates the impact of demand and supply changes on profitability. We find that, compared with the late 1990s, in 2006, a) air-tra...

The Leader's Curse in the Airline Industry

This paper studies the e ect of the airline industry's operational time-line on multi-market competition and carrier network structure selection. Airline carriers typically commit to a rigid capacity of seats via the planned ights schedule long before market competition for selling these seats begins. While in regular markets such a two stage setting has no e ect on competitive behavior, the ai...