The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the loyalty of airline users in both online and offline environments, and the influence exercised by the virtual environment on overall loyalty to an airline company. An empirical study was carried out, with a total of 1710 personal interviews with users of different airline companies. In the analysis of the data, structural equations models were used, ...

Codesharing is a widespread practice that allows an airline to put one of its flight numbers on a flight operated by a partner airline and consider it in its own network. Even though it has been repeatedly demonstrated that this type of partnership can generate important additional revenue, it is increasingly complex for an airline to choose which flights to codeshare with which partners. We pr...

Since the pilots’ dispute ended in 1989, globalisation has fundamentally altered the environment in which pilots establish their terms of employment. This paper argues that pilot labour relations have been affected by globalisation in three ways. First, the Australian airline industry was deregulated in 1990. Second, the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) deregulated the Austral...

Review comments on “How to improve the air quality over mega-cities in China? – Pollution characterization and source analysis in Shanghai before, during, and after the 2010 World Expo” by Huang et al. This manuscript provides an important study on the PM2.5 pollution in Shanghai before, during, and after the 2010 World Expo. The topic is applicable for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; howeve...

This manuscript presents an intercomparison exercise of tropospheric HCHO retrieved from satellites measurements using several products obtained from independent retrieval approaches. In order to validate the products, the authors use aircraft observations during the short term field deployment of SEAC4RS in the Southeast of the US. This is an important validation effort. In general, the paper ...

The fleet assignment problem is an integral part of the airline planning process. Given a schedule of international flights and certain maintenance criteria required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the objective of the long haul fleet assignment problem is to assign aircraft of different fleet types to different flights such that operating costs are minimized. We develop a new for...

In recent years, considerable effort in the field of operations research has been paid to optimizing airline operations, including the logistics of an airline’s fleet of aircraft. We focus on the problem of aircraft routing, which involves generating and selecting a particular route for each aircraft of a sub-fleet that is already assigned to a set of feasible sequences of flight legs. Similar ...

A 1992 U.S. report found that the injury rate per 100 full-time workers for U.S. airline employees was 13.0 percent, compared with [a] private-sector average of 8.6 percent, “an indication of the hazardous nature of the airline industry.” During the period between 1978 and 1988, the report said there was no significant change in the rate. The report, which examined 1988 statistical data on occu...

A large fraction of US public stock is held by institutional investors that frequently hold shares in multiple firms in the same industry (“common ownership”). Concerns have been raised that common ownership might harm competition if it confers influence over important strategic decisions. Using data from the airline industry, we estimate the effects of common ownership on airline prices using ...

This paper identifies some of the forces that influence the impact of air transportation on regional connectivity and economic productivity in the United States. In light of recent threats to the financial viability of the airline industry, a conceptual model has been developed to highlight the interdependence of the national economy and the air transportation system. These complex relationship...