The Airline Group of the International Federation Operations Research (AGIFORS) held a conference in October 2020 that included keynote addresses from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Airbus, as well three panels representatives 11 airlines throughout world focused on how COVID-19 is impacting reshaping airline industry. This paper presents key themes emerged these discussions, including impact bor...

The paper describes a methodology that has been implemented in a major British airline to find the optimal price to charge for airline tickets under one-way pricing. An analytical model has been developed to describe the buying behaviour of customers for flights over the selling period. Using this model and a standard analytical method for constrained optimisation, we can find an expression for...

Empirical research on the relationship between market congestion and the market competitive level largely falsifies the positive relationship predicted by theoretical models. In this paper, I exploit the airline industry network structure and focus on the level of congestion during periods in which passengers cross-connect to their final destinations. About 70% of hub airport flights depart or ...

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...

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The world’s largest aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus have traditionally been dominant in the commercial aerospace industry, but due to the rise of several smaller commercial aircraft companies and in spite of air travel increasing each year, it will be paramount for Boeing and Airbus to thoroughly understand past and current market conditions and be able to combine their understand...

This paper discusses the status quo of airline industry around world facing COVID-19 pandemic situation. The purpose first part this study was to assess impact on global air traffic, revenues by region operation, number international passengers region, and domestic passenger traffic route group. data for collected from January 2019 December 2020 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ...

Over the last 10 years there has been a tremendous growth in air transportation of passengers. Both airports and airspace are close to saturation with respect to capacity, leading to delays caused by disruptions. At the same time the amount of vehicular traffic around and in all larger cities of the world has show a dramatic increase as well. Public transportation by e.g. rail has come into foc...