Consider a multiple booking class airline-seat inventory control problem that relates to either a single flight leg or to multiple flight legs. During the time before the flight, the airline may face the problems of (1) what are the suitable prices for the opened booking classes, and (2) when to close those opened booking classes. This work deals with these two problems by only using the pricin...

The concept of Behavioural Profiling (also known as “targeting”) consists of collecting and analysing several events, each attributable to a single originating entity, in order to gain information relating to the originating entity. It consists of, in other words, transforming data into knowledge (Hildebrandt 2006). Behavioural profiling involves collecting data (recording, storing and tracking...

Time series quite often show patterns that repeat periodically. Monthly retail sales provide a good example. If the seasonality is very regular, seasonal dummy variables can be used to give, for example, a monthly effect for each month. With this approach, the January effect is assumed to be the same regardless of the year. Seasonal ARMA error terms can be added to make some local modifications...

Institutions often own equity in multiple firms that compete the same product market. Prior research has shown these institutional “common owners” induce anticompetitive pricing behavior airline industry. This paper reevaluates this evidence and shows documented positive correlation between common ownership ticket prices stems from market share component of measure, not control components. We f...

The developments in aircraft technologies both our country and around the world cause a serious increase fleets ticket sales, as well number of airline companies, their employees passengers. These aviation industry necessitate flight safety highlight importance human factor (flight crew) by reducing causality technical factors ensuring safety. Studies within this scope show that main causal (65...

Experience-based admission control (EBAC) is a hybrid approach combining the classical parameter-based and measurement-based admission control. EBAC calculates an appropriate overbooking factor used to overbook link capacities with resource reservations in packet-switched networks. This overbooking factor correlates with the average peak-to-mean rate ratio of all admitted traffic flows on the l...

Economic theory suggests that a monopolist can price discriminate more successfully than can a perfectly competitive firm. Most real-life markets, however, fall somewhere in between the two extremes. What happens as the market becomes more competitive: Does price discrimination increase or decrease? This paper examines how price discrimination changes with market concentration in the airline ma...