This paper presents a framework to analyze global alliances and mergers in the airline industry under competition. The framework can help airlines identify partners and network structures, and help governments predict changes in social welfare before accepting or rejecting proposed mergers or alliances. The research combines profit-maximizing objectives to cost-based network design formulations...

This study examines conditions in which alliance networks (informal webs of bilateral entanglements between firms) may or may not evolve into multilateral alliances (broad, formal multiple-firm arrangements). I offer a theory to explain the formation of multilateral alliances based on both the resource profile and the structure of existing interfirm networks, and provide an initial test of that...

This paper analyzes the effects on flight frequency of two alliances that came about in Russian airline market recent years: between Aeroflot and SkyTeam 2006, S7 oneworld 2010. We use a difference-in-differences (DID) model to identify these frequencies. The integration into provides evidence alliance resulted reduced frequencies routes where overlapped with its new partners, but it increased ...