Sex Discrimination in the Airline Industry: Title VII Flying High

Comparable Worth Theory of Title VII Sex Discrimination in Compensation

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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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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...

A Model of Optimal Consumer Search and Price Discrimination in the Airline Industry

The welfare effects of price discrimination in the market for airfare can be ambiguous: price discrimination can increase airline revenue, but it can also allow for a more efficient allocation of tickets. This paper examines the market for airfare with a structural model of consumer search. My model features sophisticated consumers with rational beliefs about future price movements. Consumers i...