Service quality provides an incentive for customers to come back make repeat demand. Studies have shown that Nigeria aviation industry has failed put into proper perspective the service specific dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, tangibility, assurance, and empathy in its delivery. The study therefore examined effect organisational contextual features on Airline companies Nigeria. Cross...

In response to recommendations from the National Aviation Weather Program Council, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working with industry to develop an electronic pilot reporting capability for small aircraft. This paper describes the Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR) sensor development effort. NASA is working with industry to develop a sens...

To fly from London to New York nowadays, it is customary to visit a traveling website such as http://travel.yahoo. com, in order to make the reservation. Surprisingly, there are more than 46 flights to choose from with varying prices ranging from $672 to $1,989. In fact, with an extra $3 the VIP services in coach would be granted, which infers that long gone are the days where many calls had to...

Disruption management is one of the most important scheduling problems in the airline industry because of the elevated costs associated, however this is relatively new research area comparing for example with fleet and tail assignment. The major goal to solve this kind of problem is to achieve a feasible solution for the airline company minimizing the several costs involved and within time cons...

Crew scheduling can be defined as the problem of assigning a group of workers (a crew) to a set of tasks. The crews are typically interchangeable , although in some cases different crews possess different characteristics that affect which subsets of tasks they can complete. Crew scheduling problems appear in a number of transportation contexts. Examples include bus and rail transit, truck and r...

This research is mainly to understand the business operation environment internally and externally which correlate with Airline industry. It also aims address various issues that affect development of Kenya airways as an international airline operator. Such relationship airway its host countries essential in determining barriers a harmonious coexistence strategy development. There are company’s...

The authors thank the referee for the constructive and helpful comments. Our detailed replies to the referee 2’s comments (in Italic) are given below. Anonymous Referee 2 This manuscript discusses an important topic, the contribution of ion-induced nucleation on atmospheric new particle formation. It is well-written, and in its current form, discreet, compared to the original manuscript. It is ...

Brian Whitaker, The Guardian commentator, noted in an article last September, “I have often travelled on planes next to Christians who crossed themselves or Muslims who whispered a prayer before take-off. It happens in all faiths, so the reaction of a Canadian airline to a Jewish man who prayed in his seat seems both bizarre and insensitive: he was thrown off the plane”. This anecdote is useful...

Extant research suggests that tacit collusion or the “golden rule” of refraining from aggressive pricing in jointly contested markets is an integral feature of the US airline industry. Our research revisits this past wisdom in the presence of airlines that pursue a distinctly different pricing strategy. Amongst airlines, Southwest and JetBlue largely practice an Everyday Low Price (EDLP) price-...