Airline Industry: Strategies, operations, safety

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Author(s): Connor R. Walsh (ed.)
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Year: 2011

Language: English
Commentary: extra pages after 247 are blank
Pages: 326
Tags: Транспорт;Технология и организация перевозок;

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