Profitability change in the global 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...

Determinants of profitability and recovery from system-wide shocks: The case of the airline industry

Purpose: Examination of the determinants of profitability in the U.S. domestic airline industry by considering operations strategy, productivity, and service measures, while focusing the attention on the effects of the 9/11 attack. Design/methodology/approach: We propose a series of hypotheses regarding the effect of operations strategy, productivity, and service before and after the 9/11 attac...

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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...

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...