Aviation networks play a critical role in the success of today’s airlines and airports. This book provides insight on all aspects of modern network strategies and structures, ranging from market research to hub design, operations, organization, alliances, benchmarking, and antitrust issues. Considering both the airline and the airport perspectives, the book explains the economics of connectivity or productivity-driven hub structures through basic mathematics, which helps the reader to comprehend the structural strengths and weaknesses of aviation networks. More than 100 charts help clarify the topics at hand.
Author(s): Philipp Goedeking (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 145
Tags: Management/Business for Professionals; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Organization/Planning; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Market Research: Overcoming Incomplete, Inconsistent, or Outdated Data....Pages 1-14
Network Structures Follow Network Strategies....Pages 15-35
Designing Connectivity-Driven Network and Hub Structures....Pages 37-64
Designing Asset-Productive Networks....Pages 65-82
Case Studies....Pages 83-91
Planning and Controlling Networks: Networking Higher Math, Intuition, and Power Play....Pages 93-104
Competition, Cooperation, Co-opetition, and Antitrust: Balancing Economies of Scale and Competitive Market Structures....Pages 105-111
Multi-Hub Networks: Masterpieces or Nightmares of Complexity?....Pages 113-117
Assessing and Comparing the Strengths and Weaknesses of Aviation Networks....Pages 119-125
An Overarching Concept: The Hierarchical Layers of Aviation Networks....Pages 127-136
Back Matter....Pages 137-145
