When disturbances make it impossible to realise the planned flight schedule, the dispatcher at the airline operational centre defines a new flight schedule based on airline policy, in order to reduce the negative effects of these perturbations. Depending on airline policy, when designing the new flight schedule, the dispatcher delays or cancels some flights and reassigns some flights to availab...

Software decision support tools that assist controllers with the management of air traffic are dependent upon the ability to accurately predict future aircraft positions. Trajectory predictions in en route airspace rely upon the availability of aircraft state, aircraft performance, pilot intent, and atmospheric data. The use of real-time airline information for improving ground-based trajectory...

The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline travellers is vital for destination marketers. Using micro official statistics data for air travellers to Spain in 2010 and the compositional data analysis (CODA) methodolo...

The trend of forming alliances to develop new products continues; however, many of these new product alliances fail. As such we explore how key risk types intrinsic in new product alliances, performance, relational, and knowledge appropriation risks, influence alliance success. Further, we theorize that different alliance governance mechanisms can reduce the negative impact of risks on alliance...

A central component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative is the use of multi-stakeholder alliances to oversee and coordinate regional health care improvement activities. While alliances hold the prospect of accomplishing together what one sector could not do if working alone, the inherent characteristics of alliances present a multitude of challe...

A mixed methodology study of inter-hospital alliances in Germany, Canada and Switzerland was conducted to describe the goals and performance of inter-hospital alliances and to identify which alliance features best predict performance. Alliance features and performance were studied through a series of 59 interviews conducted within 12 hospitals involved in such partnerships. Respondents included...

September 11, 2001 will always be considered a turning point in the history of America. Terrorists attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. with aircrafts, were proved to be a major catastrophe for American as well as world airline industry. The North American airspace was completely shut down for four days and airline industry faced an unprecedented decline in demand for air travel immedia...