Professional airline pilots should be in far better health at all ages than the general population. Every six months, U.S. airline pilots must undergo a first-class flight physical examination, which is defined and required by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). To continue flying as pilots, they must pass the physical examination. Airline pilots reach age 60 (their mandatory-retire...

The performance metric used to evaluate on-time performance in the US airline industry is flight-based, measuring the number of flight legs with arrival delay of 15 minutes or more. We analyze airline passenger operations and schedule performance and conclude that this flight-based performance metric does not accurately reflect delays to passengers, primarily because it does not recognize the l...

It is difficult for the firm investing in information technology (IT) to appropriate a1 of the benefits from its investment for itselfit is very easy to imitate innovations in IT. Airlines have installed computerized reservations systems (CRSs) in travel agencies in order to appropriate the returns from their investments in information technology. The airlines expected to obtain a number of ben...

This paper examines the relationship between transportation quality, customer satisfaction and profitability. Specifically, this study simultaneous asynchronous effect of quality services on financial performance then performs same examination in relation to performance. The partial least squares approach structural equation modelling is used examine longitudinal data from 1995 2018 US airline ...

The productivity of the airline industry has increased over time after the deregulation. Longer flights, higher aircraft utilization rates, along with more fuel efficient aircraft, and operational plans designed to economize fuel are major reasons to expect better productivity performance in the airline industry. This achievement cannot be realized unless technological changes in the aircraft m...

Motivated by observations in the Norwegian airline industry in the late 90s, we develop a semicollusive model with collusion on gross prices and competition on contracts for large customers (corporate contracts). The theoretical predictions are tested on detailed data on gross prices, large customer prices and quantities in the Norwegian airline industry in the period 1998-2001. We control for ...

The roll-out of the high speed train (HST) in China during the past decade o ers travelers a realistic choice of rail versus air on overlapping routes. While the HST competes for tra c it also feeds tra c to the non-overlapping air routes that are connected to the HST network. This paper analyzes the impact of HST roll-out on air carriers' route network decisions. Using a unique hand-collected ...