Airline Industry: Strategies, Operations and Safety (Transportation Infrastructure - Roads, Bridges, Highways, Airports and Mass Transit)

This book presents a comprehensive review of the strategies, operations and safety of the airline industry. Topics discussed herein include a financial history and analysis of the U.S. airline industry; outsourcing strategies of full-service airlines; measuring and benchmarking airport efficiency; service quality and internal differences among members of the airline alliances; measures used to schedule airline crew under a variable workload using fixed days on and days off patterns; and frequent flyer mile usage among passengers. TITLE PAGE......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 ABSTRACT......Page 12 I. INTRODUCTION......Page 13 A. The Paradox of the Airline Industry......Page 15 C. The Period of Regulation (1938-1978)......Page 17 The regulation of services......Page 19 D. The Post-Regulation Period (1978-2001)......Page 20 E. The Post-Terrorist Period (2001 - Present)......Page 24 Prior literature......Page 25 Descriptive statistics......Page 26 Data and methodology......Page 30 Results......Page 34 Prior literature......Page 36 Methodology......Page 37 Results......Page 41 Summary and implications......Page 43 IV. THE RISKS OF AIRLINE OWNERSHIP......Page 44 Data and Methodology......Page 45 Market risk......Page 46 Results......Page 47 Summary and Implications......Page 52 Prior literature......Page 54 Data and methodology......Page 56 Summary and implications......Page 57 Data and methodology......Page 61 Results......Page 62 A note on the tax consequences of debt versus operating leases......Page 65 VI. SUMMARY, IMPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS......Page 66 REFERENCES......Page 69 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 72 2. SUMMARY OF RELATED WORK......Page 73 3. AIRLINE OPERATIONS CONTROL......Page 74 3.1. Airline Scheduling Problem......Page 78 3.2. AOCC Organization......Page 79 3.3. Typical Problems......Page 81 3.4. Current Disruption Management Process......Page 82 3.6. Current Tools and Systems......Page 83 4.1. Introduction......Page 85 4.2. Why an Agent and Multi-Agent System Paradigm?......Page 87 4.3. MAS Architecture......Page 88 4.4. Decision Mechanisms......Page 89 4.4.1. Manager agents level negotiation......Page 90 4.4.2. Team level negotiation......Page 92 4.5. Quality Operational Costs......Page 94 4.5.1. Quantifying Quality Costs......Page 95 4.5.2. Airline example......Page 96 4.6. Problem Solving Algorithms......Page 97 5. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP......Page 99 6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION......Page 101 7. CONCLUSION......Page 103 REFERENCES......Page 104 INTRODUCTION......Page 110 THE INDUSTRY CONTEXT......Page 111 THE THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF OUTSOURCING......Page 112 THE INVESTIGATION......Page 114 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION......Page 116 1. Plane Acquisition and Ownership......Page 117 2. Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance......Page 118 3. Customer Sales and Ticketing......Page 120 4. In-Flight Catering......Page 121 5. Corporate Identity and Brand Management......Page 122 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 124 REFERENCES......Page 126 ABSTRACT......Page 130 1.1. Deregulation and LCC Spread......Page 131 Historic facts......Page 133 Ryanair economic performance......Page 134 Market opportunity recognized......Page 135 Strategy......Page 136 1.4. Network Structure......Page 138 2. THE PRICING STRATEGY OF RYANAIR......Page 143 2.1. Methodological Aspects......Page 144 2.2. Empirical Findings......Page 145 REFERENCES......Page 152 ABSTRACT......Page 154 2. BACKGROUND......Page 155 3. MODEL VARIABLES......Page 157 4.1. The Characteristics of the DEA Model......Page 159 4.2. An Illustration of a DEA Model......Page 161 5.1. The Characteristics of the SFA Model......Page 163 2.1. The Model......Page 165 REFERENCES......Page 167 8. APPENDIX......Page 170 ABSTRACT......Page 172 Definition......Page 173 Acceleration Forces......Page 174 Thermostability......Page 175 Gaseous Toxicities, Diffusion and Vacuolization......Page 176 Nursing Challenges......Page 177 Motion Sickness Susceptibility......Page 178 Gaseous Toxicities......Page 179 NURSING IMPLICATIONS......Page 182 REFERENCES......Page 183 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 186 2. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY......Page 187 4.1. CSR Reporting Formats......Page 188 4.2. CSR Organization......Page 189 4.3. The Marketplace......Page 190 4.4. Workplace......Page 191 4.5. Community......Page 192 4.6. Environment......Page 193 5. CONCLUSION......Page 194 REFERENCES......Page 195 INTRODUCTION......Page 198 HYPOTHESES......Page 199 RESULTS......Page 200 CONCLUSION......Page 201 REFERENCES......Page 202 1.Introduction......Page 204 2.Basic Characteristics of the Airline Crew Rostering Problem......Page 207 3.Bridging the gap between schedule consistency and flexibility......Page 212 Purecyclicalschedulingintheassumptionofanequaldemand......Page 214 Purecyclicalschedulingunderavariableworkload......Page 215 Purecyclicalschedulingcombiningmultipleworkpatterns......Page 216 3.3.Subdividingtheworkforceintodifferentgroupsforcrewrostering......Page 218 3.4.Extensionwithan’adhoc’RosteringComponent......Page 220 4.Conclusions and Future Research......Page 221 References......Page 222 Abstract......Page 224 1.Introduction......Page 225 2.Frequent Flyer Programs......Page 226 3.2.ModelSetup......Page 227 3.3.EstimatedEquationandPanelStructure......Page 228 3.4.Instruments......Page 230 4.2.TrendandRouteSpecificCharacteristics......Page 231 4.3.ThePriceEffect......Page 233 4.5.ProductQualityandCapacityConstraints......Page 237 5.A Simple Model of the Price Effect......Page 238 6.Conclusion......Page 239 A Variable Construction......Page 240 B First Stage Regressions......Page 241 References......Page 242 INDEX......Page 244