Revenue management has been successfully implemented in the airline industry since the deregulation in 1978. There have been very few comprehensive, rigorous studies of its practices and impact, however. In this paper we examine how revenue management practices affect airline performances such as loadfactor and revenue, and how revenue management practices are implemented in different market st...

The past decade has been a difficult one for the US airline industry. On the one hand, airline profits have been highly variable with net losses over the last ten years standing in the tens of billions of dollars. On the other hand, consumers continue to complain of predatory pricing and other such tactics. Our goal here will simply be to get an estimate of what is possible moving forward. We a...

Ever since the Deregulation Act in 1978 in the U.S. airline industry, there have been series of major airline mergers and acquisitions, notably three major waves in the 1980’s, 1990’s, and late 2000’s. These mergers, especially the more recent multi-billion mergers (e.g. DeltaNorthwest, United-Continental) have shown a trend of substantial market consolidation that inevitably worries consumers ...

Capt. Herbert Schwarz AICC [email protected] Abstract Learning management systems provide an indispensable basis for the manifold training requirements of flight crew, ground staff, engineering and maintenance personnel mandatory to the airline industry. Screening and deployment of such a system is a complex endeavor which is discussed against the background of specific requirements of the airl...

The railway industry offers similar revenue management opportunities to those found in the airline industry. The railway industry caters for the delivery and management of cargo as well as the transport of passengers. Unlike the airline industry, the railway industry has seen relatively little attention to revenue management problems. We provide an overview of the published literature for both ...

Many e-commerce principles were pioneered in the airline industry. These include the first business-to-business electronic information exchange and industry-wide electronic marketplace. This environment provided unprecedented opportunity for operations research (OR) modeling. By the mid-1980s airlines used customer shopping data to calibrate traveler demand and choice models, analyzed multi-cha...

OBJECTIVE To examine an industry funded and controlled study of in flight air quality (IFAQ). METHODS Systematic search of internal tobacco industry documents available on the internet and at the British American Tobacco Guildford Depository. RESULTS Individuals from several tobacco industry companies, led by Philip Morris, designed, funded, conducted, and controlled the presentation of res...

Similarly in the commercial airline industry, the global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) business is faced with creating total service packages to attract future work, as airlines accelerate outsourcing and retire aging aircraft to minimize life cycle and transaction costs. Third-party service providers are challenging the market share traditionally dominated by the major airline subsidi...