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JIANG, Hongwei, Glenn S. BAXTER, and Graham WILD. "A STUDY OF CHINA’S MAJOR DOMESTIC AIRLINES’ SERVICE QUALITY AT SHANGHAI’S HONGQIAO AND PUDONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS." Aviation 21, no. 4 (December 21, 2017): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16487788.2017.1415224.
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In a highly competitive market, service quality can be the core competitive advantage for airline’s profitability and sustained development. This paper has investigated the differences in the passengers’ expectations and perceptions of the service quality of China’s four major domestic airlines: Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Hainan Airlines in China’s domestic market. The results will assist airline management to improve service quality by reducing the difference. Surveys were conducted with domestic passengers at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport in China. The results show that there are significant differences of service quality between passengers’ expectations and perceptions among major Chinese airlines. Passengers consistently rate ‘good safety records’ as the first priority of seven SERVQUAL dimensions, but low price remains the most important factor that passengers consider when choosing a Chinese airline. The conclusions reached in this work suggest that Chinese airlines should consider improving service quality rather than providing cheaper air tickets in order to gain competitive advantage.
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Nataraja, Sundaram, and Beau Grantham. "RIVALRY AMONGST TOP-FIVE MAJOR AIRLINES IN THE U.S. MARKET." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 7 (July 29, 2020): 160–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i7.2020.596.
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Understanding the economic characteristics of the U.S. airline industry, assessing the degree of competition/rivalry among the competing airline businesses in the U.S. airline industry, and (3) making recommendations to the airlines and to the consumers of air transportation are the primary objectives of this research study. The authors analyze the rivalry among major U.S. airlines operating in the domestic market using datasets extracted from Bureau of Transportation Statistics for operations during a 12-month period ending in May 2019. Amongst the 17 major U.S. airlines, whose annual operational revenue is over $1 billion, a set of top-five airlines has been identified using the percentage of their marketshare. The research findings indicate that these five major airlines have an intense rivalry in the U.S. domestic market in terms of number of markets served, number of departures made, number of passengers transported, amount of cargo carried, load factor, revenue and cost of operations, profit and loss, and net income earned. Hence, these airlines put pressure on one another and limit each other’s profit potential.
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Low, Joyce, and Kum Khiong Yang. "Understanding the operating landscape of the global airline industry: A DEA integrated alternating conditional expectation approach." Journal of Airline and Airport Management 9, no. 2 (October 7, 2019): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jairm.126.
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Purpose: This study investigates the relationships between service efficiency in 5 major cost centres (namely, business orientation, network coverage, physical resources, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), and human resources) and profitability in the global airline industry.Design/methodology/approach: The study integrates the Slack-based Model (SBM) of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) regression to understand the relationships between an airline’s profitability and its efficiencies in 5 identified operations areas.Findings: Based on the observational data obtained from 75 international airlines, the relationships between operational performances and profitability are found to be curvilinear and contingent on an airline’s operating model.Research limitations/implications: The omission of non-IATA airlines and many low cost carriers may hinder a holistic view of the airline industry.Practical implications: Management can influence the profitability of an airline through its strategic operations decisions that affect an airline’s cost, service quality, and financial structure after the influences of location and size have set the stage. Airlines pursuing cost leadership should seek to increase productivity especially in MRO, human resources and physical resources; whereas airlines pursuing service differentiation may choose to provide quality service at lower efficiencies or pursue an approach to improve quality and efficiencies simultaneously.Originality/value: Identifying operations practices that are consistent with a firm’s competitive priorities is important in the multifaceted service environment today. An integrated SBM-ACE regression model, which permits different input-output mix, variable return to scale and non-linear relationship, is proposed and applied to analyze the profit impact of service efficiencies in the five key operations areas.
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Baxter, Glenn. "A Strategic Analysis of Cargolux Airlines International Position in the Global Air Cargo Supply Chain Using Porter’s Five Forces Model." Infrastructures 4, no. 1 (January 18, 2019): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures4010006.
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The objective of this research was to examine Cargolux Airlines International’s, one of the world’s major dedicated all-cargo airlines, strategic position in the global air cargo supply chain. To achieve this objective, a qualitative research approach was used. The data gathered for the study was examined by document analysis. The strategic analysis of Cargolux Airlines International was underpinned using Porter’s Five Forces Model. The study found that Cargolux has developed an extensive portfolio of products that satisfy discrete air cargo market segments’ requirements. The airline has also entered strategic partnership agreements with Emirates SkyCargo, Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA), and Oman Air, which has enabled the partners to expand their route networks and to better optimize their available air cargo capacities. Cargolux has also established Milan-based Cargo Italia, which focuses on serving the important Italian air cargo market. The airline has also developed a successful two hub strategy in conjunction with one of its major shareholders, Henan Civil Aviation and Investment Company (HNCA). In 2017, Cargolux commenced a journey of transformation with the introduction of the “Cargolux 2025 Strategy”. A limitation of the study was that Cargolux’s annual revenues were not available. It was, therefore, not possible to analyze the airline’s revenue performance.
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Nguyen Thi, Minh-Anh. "A longitudinal Perspective on Efficiency of Airlines in Europe and the U.S." SEISENSE Journal of Management 4, no. 2 (March 6, 2021): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33215/sjom.v4i2.591.
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The aviation industries in Europe and the US have been well-established since a very early age and have attracted great attention from both industry practitioners and academics. To derive a different perspective on the efficiency levels of airlines operating in the two matured markets, we adopted dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA). Using the data of the period 2014 – 2016 of 7 European airlines and 9 US airlines that are publicly traded, the study offers an overall picture of airlines' efficiency in the two regions. Notably, the resource flow between the consecutive periods is incorporated into the measure to yield a longitudinal perspective on airlines' efficiency. The study reveals the two major findings. First, most publicly traded airlines in Europe and the US are efficient, except for Hawaiian airline headquartered in the US. Second, Hawaiian airline's inefficiency is majorly contributed by the overuse of the number of employees, consumed fuel, and the deficit of revenue seat-miles in 2014 and 2015. To improve the efficiency level, Hawaiian airlines could consider increasing employee productivity, using more fuel-efficient aircraft, and implementing new marketing strategies to boost sales.
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Hogendorn, Christiaan. "Niche Networks for New Entrants." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1567, no. 1 (January 1997): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1567-03.
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How new entrant carriers may use returns to airline networks in competition is discussed. In addition to overall returns to scope and density, there are more localized returns that are based on network shape. A network shape index, which is a measure of airline network concentration based on the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, is described. Airlines have chosen many different shapes as measured by the network shape index, and new entrants tend to be shaped differently from major airlines. A model of new entrant profitability relative to the major airlines is developed. New entrants whose network shape indices are substantially different from the major airlines have niche networks, and the model indicates that niche networks are associated with higher profitability.
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Massoud, Bazargan, and Xiaoxu Chen. "Airline Hangars Balanced Manpower Utilization." International Journal of Aviation Systems, Operations and Training 3, no. 1 (January 2016): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijasot.2016010104.
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Airlines on average spend 10%-15% of their total operating cost on aircraft maintenance. Most of the airlines conduct their light maintenance checks in-house. These light checks have a major impact on flight schedules, delay rates and cost. A chronic challenge with airlines is assigning light maintenance checks to the hangars while achieving a balanced utilization of the manpower. This study considers airline's daily flight schedule, manpower needed for each check, the availability of manpower and expertise at each hangar, capitalizes on flexibility of performing aircraft light maintenance checks among potential hangars aiming at balancing manpower utilization. The results are very encouraging compared with existing practices. The model not only identifies which maintenance checks to be performed at different hangars but provides recommendations in terms of increasing/decreasing manpower needs. An airline application reveals that the model can help airlines with their strategic manpower planning strategies to achieve a high and balanced utilization of their maintenance manpower.
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Waguespack, Blaise, and Scott Ambrose. "AIRLINE SPONSORSHIPS AND SPORTS – AN EXPLORATORY REVIEW OF MAJOR AIRLINE ENGAGEMENT." Journal of Air Transport Studies 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 110–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.38008/jats.v10i1.19.
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Airline involvement in sport sponsorship has grown over the last few years as sponsorship activity has proven effective as one method to reach a global audience. Aiding in this move to the use of sponsorship is the growing role of social media networks that can be utilized with traditional media and event marketing activities to leverage the impact of the sponsorship. However, the extent of involvement in sports, the leading area of sponsorship activity, and across other events by the world’s major air carriers varies greatly. This review examines the reported sponsorships engagements in sports by leading global airlines at the airline’s web site.
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Chan, Chun-Hsiang, Tzu-How Chu, Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, and Tzai-Hung Wen. "Spatially Characterizing Major Airline Alliances: A Network Analysis." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010037.
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An airline alliance is a group of member airlines that seek to achieve the same goals through routes and airports. Hence, airports’ connectivity plays an essential role in understanding the linkage between different markets, especially the impact of neighboring airports on focal airports. An airline alliance airport network (AAAN) comprises airports as nodes and routes as edges. It could reflect a clear collaborative proportion within AAAN and competitive routes between AAANs. Recent studies adopted an airport- or route-centric perspective to evaluate the relationship between airline alliances and their member airlines; meanwhile, they mentioned that an airport community could provide valuable air transportation information because it considers the entire network structure, including the impacts of the direct and indirect routes. The objectives are to identify spatial patterns of market region in an airline alliance and characterize the differences among airline alliances (Oneworld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam), including regions of collaboration, competition, and dominance. Our results show that Star Alliance has the highest collaboration and international market dominance among three airline alliances. The most competitive regions are Asia-Pacific, West Asia, Europe, and North and Central America. The network approach we proposed identifies market characteristics, highlights the region of market advantages in the airline alliance, and also provides more insights for airline and airline alliances to extend their market share or service areas.
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Enomoto, Carl E., Karl R. Geisler, and Sajid A. Noor. "Non-price competition in the US airline industry: a VAR model." Journal of Economic Studies 44, no. 6 (November 13, 2017): 882–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jes-09-2016-0173.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which major US airlines respond to one another in quality of service improvements. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing monthly data, the authors estimate a five-equation vector autoregressive model to determine which airline leads or follows others in quality of service improvements. Findings This study found that the five major airlines make interrelated decisions when responding to customer complaints concerning flight problems, over-sales, reservations, ticketing, boarding, and customer service. Every airline either responds to or influences the changes in customer complaints faced by at least one other airline, while some airlines do both. However, only one such relationship was found when examining if airlines change the percent of flight delays they have control over in response to changes in flight delays faced by another airline. Practical implications The number of passenger complaints against an airline can be influenced by the airline, as can the number of carrier-caused flight delays. The industry leaders in responsiveness to consumer complaints are US Airways and United. However, airlines do not, as a group, respond to the carrier-caused delays of their competitors. The prescription to improve airline service vis-à-vis flight delays is simple: tell passengers why flights are delayed. To protect or gain market share, airlines would compete for customers by minimizing flight delays in a similar manor to how they respond to customer complaints. Originality/value No other paper that the authors are aware of has addressed the issue of identifying leaders and followers in the US airline industry regarding changes in service quality as reflected by changes in passenger complaints and flight delays.
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Fu, Yan-Kai, Weilun Huang, and Chin-Nung Liao. "The selection model for horizontal alliances between hotels and airlines: an integrated application of NGT, fuzzy TOPSIS and MCGP methods." Tourism Review 75, no. 4 (January 30, 2020): 681–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-06-2019-0214.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the hotel selection problem of airlines for their hotel and airline alliance (HAA) to develop potential customers of airlines. This paper will propose a hybrid mathematics evaluation model to help airline to select an optimal hotel with both qualitative and quantitative criteria. Design/methodology/approach To solve the hotel selection problem of airlines for their HAA, this paper focuses on the implementation of the NGT, Fuzzy TOPSIS and MCGP models in the hotel selection process. Initially, the NGT was used to create HAA decision-making criteria based on the literature review and expert opinions, and it was found that scale and scope possibility, brand value, tourism attraction, operating cost and industrial conditions are the most important criteria. Later, the Fuzzy TOPSIS method was used to obtain the general normalized fuzzy preference and to compute the closeness coefficients of each alternative hotel with respect to each criterion. Third, five tangible constraints were incorporated into the Fuzzy TOPSIS-MCGP model to calculate the optimal hotel with LINGO software. Findings Airline managers can use the proposed model to form a clear view of how to choose the most suitable hotel to cooperate with to outperform their competitors. Having access to this information allows airline managers to take steps to perform better and improve the performance of the partnership, helping them to gain more confidence in their decision-making capabilities while reducing investment risks. Originality/value This is the first paper that has adopted Fuzzy TOPSIS-MCGP to select hotel for their HAA from the airline’s point of view. The major contributions of this study are as follows: an efficient and simple evaluation framework is proposed for handling vagueness and uncertainty in real-world hotel selection problems; the advancement of treating uncertainty in the MCDM process; the fuzzy TOPSIS-MCGP method is extended for such problems, taking into account tangible and intangible criteria; airline managers can now make decisions in choosing to select the best hotel for their HAA that meets the airline's business goals and passenger demands; hotel operators are flexible in selecting their airline partnership, thus creating greater profit for both parties.
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Suk, Minho, and Wonjoon Kim. "COVID-19 and the airline industry: crisis management and resilience." Tourism Review 76, no. 4 (July 5, 2021): 984–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-07-2020-0348.
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Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a time of crisis and uncertainty for the air transportation industry. The gloomy prospects for the industry have stretched business resilience to a critical point. The crisis has caused damage and shock that the aviation industry has never endured before. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of both internally and externally generated airline response strategies by examining business practices for crisis management. Design/methodology/approach This study screened research papers and economic reports from authoritative organizations including the International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Health Organization and United Nations World Tourism Organization from December 2019 (the month in which the COVID-19 outbreak occurred) to March 2021 (the most recent month at present). The authors also integrated publicly recognized news articles to cover a wide range of business practices in the airline industry. The authors conducted thematic analysis by filtering news articles and economic reports that mentioned the keywords “COVID-19,” “pandemic,” “CoV-2,” “coronavirus” and “corona.” The authors coded the airlines’ response actions along the two-axis matrix (time and magnitude) and generated insights in a timely manner. Findings Major airlines have modified decision-making in relation to the exponential spread of the virus, which is in direct proportion to the deterioration level in the airline industry. When the impact was low in the early stage, major airlines maintained their status quo. Before long, the magnitude of the destruction became high, which made airlines implement capacity adjustments and request government relief measures. As industrial deterioration deepens, airlines keep calling for state aid packages and have changed their focus to the cargo transportation of high-demand commodities and pharmaceutical supplies. Lastly, industrial adversity and uncertainty have made them defer aggressive takeover opportunities. Originality/value Several researchers have investigated the impacts of the COVID-19 on the airline industry. However, there remains a dearth of scholarship on the hampered business activities and crisis management of the airline industry. In the absence of sufficient response strategies against the COVID-19 panic, this paper is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the major airlines’ response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this paper yields an opportunity for on-site management to review how major global airlines have responded to the crisis and find managerial insights to restore their business sustainability.
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Sidiq, Ben, Mobolaji Stephens, and Wilfred Ukpere. "Significant variables currently influencing air travelers’ preference for domestic airlines in Nigeria." Tourism and Travelling 3, no. 1 (August 19, 2021): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/tt.3(1).2021.03.
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In recent years domestic airlines are improving their services, and the major airlines in Nigeria are ahead of others based on superior strategies; in fact, some airlines are not fully utilized, which affects their profitability, while others are highly utilized. Market dynamics and regulatory forces are the key variables that influence airline attributes, features, and developments, but this is most evident where each airline competes for passengers despite the different route choices and airports of departure. This study aimed to examine the significant variables that are currently influencing air travelers’ preference for domestic airlines in Nigeria. Primary data were obtained through systematic and random sampling of air passengers, and a questionnaire was employed for data analysis. In Lagos and Abuja airports, 757 and 682 questionnaires were administered respectively with 71.1% and 61.9% returned respectively. Regression analysis was utilized to analyze the primary data. The study found that time, safety, and fare are the most influencing factors determining passenger choice of domestic airlines in Nigeria. The current findings are crucial for policymaking, particularly during the phase of airline planning and management especially during the Covid-19 pandemic era that has challenged the economic buoyancy and the purchasing power of passengers.
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Wang, Chia-Nan, Tsang-Ta Tsai, Hsien-Pin Hsu, and Le-Hoang Nguyen. "Performance Evaluation of Major Asian Airline Companies Using DEA Window Model and Grey Theory." Sustainability 11, no. 9 (May 13, 2019): 2701. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11092701.
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Being an essential part of the global transport system, airline transportation is capable of delivering fast service for passengers and commodities. In the past decade, the Asia aviation industry has experienced a high growth rate of transport due to higher economic development in this area, and this trend is expected to continue in the next two decades. However, competition in the Asia aviation industry will increase dramatically. To survive in the Asia aviation industry, the Asia airline companies should understand their current and future performance. A methodology for this purpose is required. This paper proposes a hybrid approach, combining Grey model GM(1,1) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Window model, to satisfy this need. The hybrid approach proposed in this research has been used to evaluate the current and future performance of 16 major Asia airline companies. The DEA Window analysis showed that airline companies Emirates, Cebu Pacific, and Sri Lankan were leading companies in the time period of 2012 to 2016, while Singapore Airlines, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways followed behind. We found that Chinese airline corporations are rising in the Asia aviation industry. All 16 Asia airline companies studied in the research were found to improve their productivity in the time period of 2017 to 2021 as their Malmquist productivity indexes (MPIs) are greater than 1.
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Barrows, Samuel D. "In Asia, Does Airline Service Quality Matter to Investors?" Asian Social Science 14, no. 4 (March 19, 2018): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v14n4p8.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether premium services airlines in Asia offer better returns to investors as compared to normal services airlines. To accomplish this, portfolios are created for each airline group and compared against benchmarks in monthly assessments over a sixty two month period ending in October 2017. The benchmarks include the global market and the oil market. The global market offers a comparison to a baseline expectation while the oil market represents a major cost component for the airline industry. The findings point to the premium services airlines as being the superior performing group in relation to the normal services airlines as judged in six cases using various configurations of the benchmarks. These results are further confirmation that in some industry segments, service quality matters. Included is literature pertaining to service quality, loyalty, and profitability. Each of these topics is expanded to show the link between various facets of customer satisfaction and implications on overall company profitability.
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Joo, Seong-Jong, and Karen L. Fowler. "Exploring comparative efficiency and determinants of efficiency for major world airlines." Benchmarking: An International Journal 21, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 675–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bij-09-2012-0054.
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Purpose – For strategic and competitive insights, this paper aims to measure and benchmark comparative operating efficiencies of major airlines in Asia, Europe, and North America. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ data envelopment analysis for measuring the relative efficiency of 90 airlines in Asia, Europe, and North America. In addition, the authors use Tobit regression analysis for finding determinants of the efficiency. Findings – Results indicate that the efficiency of the airlines in Europe is the lowest among the airlines in these three regions. Efficiency differences between the airlines in Europe and the airlines in the two other regions (Asia and North America) are statistically significant in terms of technical efficiency and pure technical efficiency, but not significant between the airlines in Asia and North America. For the determinants of efficiency, the authors identified that revenues and expenses were significant for explaining efficiency scores of airlines. Research limitations/implications – Further research is needed to explain the findings that airlines in Europe were less efficient than airlines in Asia and North America. In addition, including variables on customer satisfaction in a future study is desirable. Originality/value – Major contributions of this study include measuring the comparative efficiency of major airlines in Asia, Europe, and North America and finding determinants of the efficiency for strategic insights.
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Sabaitytė, Jolanta, Vida Davidavičienė, and Gerard Frederick Van Kleef. "The Peculiarities of Low-Cost Carrier Development in Europe." Energies 13, no. 3 (February 3, 2020): 639. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13030639.
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Low-cost carriers (LCCs) have been growing by 11.4% in revenue passenger kilometers over 2017 and changed the airline industry radically. It drove down prices in the industry. Southwest Airlines (USA) designed the LCC blueprint model, and Ryanair copied it within Europe, followed by other airlines. This research aims to fulfill the gap in contemporary research upon LCC successfulness in Europe by a description of the current situation within Europe (2018 and January 2019) and the development issues it faced, which are mapped by the Ishikawa fishbone diagram. Furthermore, to rank the airlines on strength and vulnerability, The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methodology was used for meeting LCC characteristics and airline success. By comparison of meeting the LCC characteristics and the rank of the successfulness, the results of the TOPSIS analysis showed that the airlines meeting the most LCCs characteristics are seemingly less vulnerable to the development issues that airlines are facing, as Wizz Air and Ryanair are meeting most characteristics and are the most successful. Concluded is that airlines meeting the most LCC characteristics are the least vulnerable to current issues. However, major disruptions can still form an issue and limit growth. This research can be useful for comparing and positioning airlines in the market, based on issues and operational choices.
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Xu, Zhao, and Mamoudou Dioumessy. "Challenges and Solutions to Air Transportation in Guinea: A Case Study on the Revival of the National Airline." Journal of Asian and African Studies 54, no. 6 (May 6, 2019): 858–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909619847219.
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After the dissolution of the first national airline in 2002, the Guinean government attempted to set up Guinea Airlines, but it was unsuccessful. This study aims to analyze the current state of air transport in Guinea and to conduct a diagnostic analysis for the revival of the national airline. The objective is to explore the causes of the failures of various attempts to revive the national company. The findings show that air transport has a positive spillover externality to economic long-run growth and the revival of Guinea Airlines could be a major asset to boost the country’s economic growth.
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Law, Colin. "The study of customer relationship management in Thai airline industry: A case of Thai travelers in Thailand." Journal of Airline and Airport Management 7, no. 1 (February 17, 2017): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jairm.86.
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Purpose: This paper offer marketing strategy suggestion to the airlines operating within the Thai aviation market. It identifies the recommended motivational factors that influence the airline customers’ decision to their airline choices. Airlines use different customer relationship management programs to attract returning customers. This paper suggested the most attractive motivation factors for Thailand's air travel market.Design/methodology/approach: This research paper is an attempt to study and identify the factors, including loyalty program, distribution channel, customer services, promotions and other influence causes that affected the customer preference in the airline ticket purchasing behavior in Thailand.A questionnaire survey was conducted with the sample identified through unrestricted non probability sampling technique at four major airports in Thailand. The data collected are analyzed to identify the favorable drivers that lead to customer decision on airline choice.Findings: The result from the study has demonstrated that price, and promotion has a significant impact on customer preference and positively leads to repurchase intention for their future travel. Moreover, flight schedules are also a main factor influencing the travelers’ final decision on airline choice. However, when the promotional strategies and schedule are comparable between airlines, customers are attracted by the airline amenities and services. Loyalty program (frequent-flier program flier program) is showing a less attractive motivator while distribution channel demonstrates the least important affecting the travelers’ choice of airline.Originality/value: The paper begins with an overview of previous research in the area of airlines customer relationship management and then moves on to what is currently being implemented by the airlines. The authors then propose several customer relationship strategies and identify the most attractive one that motivates the Thai consumers.
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Polydoropoulou, Amalia, Evangelia Chortatsiani, and Maria Kamargianni. "FLYER'S CORNER: SOME SIMPLE TRUTHS ABOUT SCHEDULED AIR TRAVEL." Journal of Air Transport Studies 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.38008/jats.v3i1.94.
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Airlines in a state of crisis need to take steps to ensure revenues keep coming in. Repeat business and eventually loyalty is critical in that respect. This paper considers airline customer buying behaviour and preferences and post-flight attitudes with a view to identifying what makes the air travel product more appealing to customers. A structured web-based purposedesigned instrument was used to collect travel and traveller data and perceptions and the findings are prioritised using a consensus decision making approach. A major issue is identified and a two-step model is developed to demonstrate its significance for airline customers’ loyalty. Specific airline customer communications and other priorities and preferences are identified. In addition, it is found that airline customers have a number of complaints, many of which are not communicated to the airline, and it is demonstrated that these complaints impact on loyalty. It is therefore argued that airlines and researchers alike need to study customer complaints in relation to loyalty in greater detail. In view of both the economic situation in Greece and airline deregulation, this research is of significance to Greek airlines seeking to “tie” their customers and maintain market presence.
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Woo, Wonseok. "Information Sharing Alliances in the Airline Industry: An Examination of Code Sharing Agreements." International Studies Review 6, no. 1 (September 28, 2005): 85–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2667078x-00601005.
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This paper addresses the issue of inter-organizational information-sharing alliances and their impacts on firm values from the perspective of inter-organizational coordination between partners in the airline industry setting. We investigate the shareholder wealth effects of inter-organizational information-sharing alliance arrangements, using 131 cede sharing agrc.unems in the airline industry betwcm 1984-1997. Employing event study methodology, we find that the information-sharing alliances between similar partners did create positive value in terms of stock returns at the time of alliance announcements to major US airlines. However, alliances between dissimilar partners resulted in significant losses of shareholder value to the major airlines. These results strongly support our main hypotheses, that information- sharing alliances arc successful and the benefits of such alliances are realized only when coordination difficulties can be effectively dealt with.
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Pamplona, D. A., and C. J. P. Alves. "Mitigating Air Delay: An analysis of the Collaborative Trajectory Options Program." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 9, no. 3 (June 8, 2019): 4154–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.48084/etasr.2728.
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Congestion is a problem at major airports in the world. Airports, especially high-traffic ones, tend to be the bottleneck in the air traffic control system. The problem that arises for the airspace planner is how to mitigate air congestion and its consequent delay, which causes increased cost for airlines and discomfort for passengers. Most congestion problems are fixed on the day of operations in a tactically manner using operational enhancements measures. Collaborative Trajectory Options Program (CTOP) aims to improve air traffic management (ATM) considering National Airspace System (NAS) users business goals, particularities faced by each flight and airspace restrictions, making this process more flexible and financially stable for those involved. In CTOP, airlines share their route preferences with the air control authority, combining delay and reroute. When CTOP is created, each airline might decide its strategy without knowledge of other airline’s flights. Current solutions for this problem are based on greedy methods and game theory. There is potential space to improve. This paper examines CTOP and identifies important strategic changes to ATM adopting this philosophy, particularly in Brazil.
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Ginieis, Matías, Ana Beatriz Hernández-Lara, and María Victòria Sánchez-Rebull. "INFLUENCE OF AIRLINES’ SIZE AND LABOUR COSTS ON PROFITABILITY." Aviation 24, no. 4 (November 11, 2020): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/aviation.2020.12539.
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It is important to examine profitability in the aviation sector and the factors that may affect it, due to their relevance for the airlines’ survival. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of three internal business characteristics,namely labour costs, labour productivity and company size, on airlines’ profitability, considering the airline type as a moderating effect. We have collected data of 190 European airlines during a 10-year period (2004–2013) which allowed us to create an unbalanced panel of 1,364 observations. Four types of airlines are considered. Results show that cost per employee has a positive influence on economic performance, especially for major carriers and regional carriers. It is also confirmed that the carrier type influences the relationship between labour costs, labour productivity and company size on the one hand, and economic returns on the other. These findings are relevant as they improve our understanding of economic profitability in different airlines’ types.
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Thomas, Mark. "Flying lessons: Malaysia and other airlines avoiding Pan Am’s final destination." Strategic Direction 31, no. 8 (July 13, 2015): 26–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sd-02-2015-0041.
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Purpose – This article examines the strategic option of airlines facing a crisis. It analyses the current troubles faced by Malaysia Airlines (MAS). Having faced major crises in five months in 2014, the company has been saved only by nationalisation and has a very uncertain future. However, the article shows that the problems of the company can also be traced to bad strategic positioning and some poor management decisions. A comparison with the demise of another former premium airline, Pan American World Airlines (Pan Am), is drawn. Design/methodology/approach – The article draws upon over 100 research and press articles as well as discussion with managers in the airline industry. Findings – The article shows that bad luck certainly had a negative impact on MAS in 2014. However, just as with Pan Am, luck is not the sole explanation. Given that airlines cannot predict a disaster, maintaining a robust strategic position and healthy finances are vital their survival. Originality/value – By drawing parallels with history, the article gives a greater insight into the problems that one company has found itself in. It shows how companies need to be aware of the changing dynamics of an industry and to prepare for crises.
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Kalawilapathirage, Hansani, Olufemi Omisakin, and Susan Zeidan. "A Data Analytic Approach of Job Satisfaction: A Case Study on Airline Industry." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 18, no. 01 (March 2019): 1950003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649219500035.
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Intense competition has made it critical for airlines to retain its highly capable staff by ensuring the highest job satisfaction of its employees. This competition has resulted from the emergence of budget airlines focussed on a niche market. To provide a differentiated passenger experience whilst flying with airlines, the management should ensure that all the staff, including ground level and cabin crew, who are the initial contact point with customers are highly satisfied in terms of their job roles. The study evaluates human resource (HR) factors affecting job satisfaction with a given (anonymous) airline. A detailed study and analysis of major factors contributing to job satisfaction in the said airline was carried out. In analysing the relationship and current level of job satisfaction, the study uses a quantitative approach, with primary data obtained from questionnaires completed by employees in one of the airlines. Further, the study has identified independent variables as being financial rewards and recognition, training and development, and work environment. Statistical tools, such as correlation and regression analysis, are used to evaluate the responses from questionnaires and to provide significance of the independent variables contributing to job satisfaction.
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Thomas, Mark, and Guillaume Vaillant. "Three high profile airline M&As." Strategic Direction 32, no. 6 (June 13, 2016): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sd-03-2016-0042.
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Purpose This paper aims to analyse the success of the three main mergers that have taken place in the US airline industry since 2008. Delta and Northwest, then Continental and United and finally US Airways and American Airlines have all tied the corporate knot. This is the latest attempt of the industry to improve profits and to fight off low cost rivals. What then is the current assessment of the three new major airlines? Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The reforms that began through deregulation under President Carter in the late 1970’s have led to a series of major airline mergers over the past decade. This has certainly improved their profits in the short term and led to a more robust strategic position. None of this though should hide the fact that they have been operating with a major tail wind in the form of falling oil prices. As prices rise again, the airlines will face a sterner test. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Ivannikova, Viktoriia, and Kateryna Kryshkevych. "APPLICATION OF SIMULATION APPROACH TO MANPOWER PLANNING AT UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES’ MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT / AVIAKOMPANIJOS „UKRAINOS TARPTAUTINĖS AVIALINIJOS“ TECHNINĖS PRIE ŽIŪROS SKYRIAUS DARBO RESURSŲ PLANAVIMO MODELIS." Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis 5, no. 5 (December 19, 2013): 578–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/mla.2013.91.
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The simulation model for the line maintenance department should be used as a tool to support effective and efficient functioning of every airline. The paper describes application of this model at Ukraine International Airlines for their major maintenance station at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Forbes, Silke Januszewski, and Mara Lederman. "Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 1, 2009): 1831–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.5.1831.
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We explore patterns of vertical integration in the US airline industry. Major airlines subcontract portions of their network to regional partners, which may or may not be owned. We investigate if ownership economizes on ex post renegotiation costs. We estimate whether airlines are more likely to use owned regionals on city pairs with adverse weather (which makes adaptation decisions more frequent) and on city pairs that are more integrated into the major's network (which raises the costs of having adaptation decisions resolved suboptimally). Our results suggest a robust empirical relationship between adaptation and vertical integration in this setting. (JEL L14, L22, L24, L93)
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Thomas, Mark. "Strategic principles at Southwest Airlines." Strategic Direction 31, no. 8 (July 13, 2015): 10–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sd-03-2015-0047.
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Purpose – Southwest is the world’s fourth largest airline and has consistently been one of the most admired organisations in the USA. Its founder and Chairman Emeritus, Herb Kelleher, attributes much of this success to the use of strategic principles. This gives a guiding framework for employees within the company but allows them leeway to make their own decisions. The result is greater employee engagement, a more efficient organisation that is adapting to the needs of its major stakeholders and greater customer satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – The article analysis of the use of the strategic principle methodology at Southwest Airlines. It focuses on the position of Southwest as “THE low fare” airline and the use of humour and different working practices within the airline. Findings – The article shows that If this can be done in an industry as heavily regulated as aviation, it can be applied with the same success to many other business sectors and organisations.
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Bae, Ki-Hwan Gabriel, Aman Gupta, and Ronald Mau. "Comparative analysis of airline financial and operational performances: A fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS integrated approach." Decision Science Letters 10, no. 3 (2021): 361–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5267/j.dsl.2021.2.002.
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Already faced with tight competition and low profit margins, the airline industry is going through major changes in the wake of the current pandemic resulting in travel restrictions and slump demands, prompting airlines to curtail services and investments in every aspect of business. To that end, developing a comprehensive method of improving airline performance measures is crucial. However, this type of problem is complex to solve due to a large number of factors, requiring a systematic approach. It entails taking into account a multitude of conflicting, or sometimes interrelated criteria, hence becoming an inherently multiple criteria decision making problem. This study is aimed to assess the competitiveness of airlines and evaluate their financial and operational performances in relation to such criteria. We test FAHP, TOPSIS, and a hybrid method of combining FAHP and TOPSIS methods. In particular, regarding the hybrid method, FAHP is employed to determine the influential weights of criteria that are utilized in TOPSIS for preference values among alternatives. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed methods to solving a MCDM problem of airline performance assessments using real data sets. Further, this study focuses on examining the relationship between financial and operational performance criteria, as well as gleaning insights for airlines to build an evaluation system that would aid in understanding their strength and weakness in the performance metrics. The computational experiment results of our hybrid FAHP-TOPSIS model support the efficacy of incorporating fuzzy values concerning influential weight criteria. By judiciously distributing criteria weights that are specific to the airline industry, our proposed model captures preference scores reflective of industry-related and concurrent measures. This modeling framework can help airlines better evaluate the systematic influential relation structure among criteria in critical financial and operational dimensions.
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Sinclair-Maragh, Gaunette. "Air Jamaica … more than a national airline." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111110627.
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Subject area Hospitality and tourism management; strategic management; marketing, transportation system management and human resource management. Study level/applicability Undergraduate in business and management and hospitality and tourism management. Case overview This teaching case outlines the historical background, successes and challenges of the national airline of Jamaica. It shows how a national airline, which is a heritage asset and one that has provided nostalgic and sentimental value to the Jamaican people and its passengers, had to be divested. The airline has been faced with several challenges; the major one being high-operating costs, especially in light of the global economic recession. The case also highlights the various procedures carried out by the Government of Jamaica before and after the divestment arrangement and also by the acquirer, Caribbean Airlines. Expected learning outcomes The student should be able to: first, differentiate among the various strategic management terms and concepts used in the case; second, explain the importance of strategic decisions versus emotional decisions; third, assess the environmental factors that impacted Air Jamaica's operation; fourth, analyse the environmental factors that should have been considered by Caribbean Airlines before making the decision to acquire Air Jamaica; fifth, carry out a comparative analysis of the various corporate-level strategies to identify the best option for the Government of Jamaica; sixth, propose reasons why Caribbean Airlines acquired Air Jamaica. Supplementary materials Teaching note.
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Vourvachis, Petros, Thérèse Woodward, David G. Woodward, and Dennis M. Patten. "CSR disclosure in response to major airline accidents: a legitimacy-based exploration." Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 7, no. 1 (March 7, 2016): 26–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sampj-12-2014-0080.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature investigating disclosure reactions to legitimacy threats by analyzing the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure reactions to catastrophic accidents suffered by major airlines. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use content analysis to examine changes in annual report disclosure in response to four separate airline disasters. The authors adopt two classification schemes and two measurement approaches to explore these changes. Findings – The authors find that for three events the organizations appear to have responded with considerable increases in CSR disclosure that are consistent with attempts of legitimation. For one of the events examined, the authors find no disclosure response and suggest that this could be due to the company’s unwillingness to accept responsibility. Research limitations/implications – The study’s focus on major airlines that have suffered an accident with available annual reports in English meant that other companies had to be excluded from the analysis. Practical implications – The findings demonstrate the use of the annual report as a legitimation tool and further highlight the need for greater transparency and comparability across publications. Originality/value – The paper adds to the scarce literature examining corporate disclosure reactions following threats to their social legitimacy.
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Shaw, Shih-Lung. "Hub structures of major US passenger airlines." Journal of Transport Geography 1, no. 1 (March 1993): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0966-6923(93)90037-z.
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Kolawole T, Gbadamosi, and Adekunle Emmanuel A. "Economic Implication of Absence of National Carrier in the Nigeria Aviation Industry." American International Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research 1, no. 2 (September 1, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.46281/aijmsr.v1i2.182.
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The aim of the study is to access the economic implication of absence of National carrier in the Nigeria aviation industry. The airline industry is the key drive of the travel and tourism industry and also a major contributor to many countries’ overall economy through international tourist arrivals and departures. The study estimate the amount of revenue Nigeria is losing to capital flights for not having a viable national carrier over the past ten years that is from 2007 to 2016.The estimated amount of revenue loss was examined on airlines offering direct flights on Nigeria to London route, in which we have two foreign airlines (British airways and Virgin Atlantic airline)and a Nigeria’s private national carrier which is Med-view airline. The class of tickets and services in each class of ticket being offered by the airlines was examined. The study reveals an estimate of total of over $6 Billion revenue were being lost to hands of foreign competitors over the past ten years with British airways generating closely to $4 billion, while Virgin Atlantic generated over $2.3 billion and Med-view generated over $133 million in the past ten years. The study also reveals that the higher the passenger carried the higher the revenue and vice versa. However, establishing a national carrier by the federal government is imminent which will express Nigeria culture and to better serve passengers especially Nigerians. Finally, banks and other governmental financial institutions should make available enough funds with longer payback period and little interest for both existing airlines to upgrade their services and new entrants to be able to purchase necessary equipment’s to make them competitive in the market.
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Baxter, Glenn, Panarat Srisaeng, and Graham Wild. "A Qualitative Assessment of a Full-Service Network Airline Sustainable Energy Management: The Case of Finnair PLC." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 17 (March 2, 2021): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232015.2021.17.17.
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Airlines are extremely energy intensive. Around the world airlines are increasingly focusing on the environmentally sustainable energy management. Using a qualitative longitudinal case study research approach, this study examines Finnair’s sustainable energy management over the period 2010 to 2019. The airline’s major energy source is jet fuel used for the operation of the airline’s aircraft fleet and the electricity which is used to power its facilities located at Helsinki Airport. The study found that Finnair’s annual jet fuel consumption has grown throughout the study due to the airline’s route network and aircraft fleet expansion. The fuel required for ground vehicles has risen reflecting greater operational requirements due to the company’s expansion. The annual consumption of electricity and electricity for heating has displayed a general downward trend during the study period. The annual electricity per passenger has also decreased despite the large growth in passenger numbers. Finnair has increased its use of renewable energy sources for its flight and ground operations. A key energy saving strategy has been the acquisition and operation of a modern state-of-the-art, fuel efficient aircraft fleet.
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Rodríguez-García, María, Maria Orero-Blat, and Daniel Palacios-Marqués. "Challenges in the Business Model of Low-Cost Airlines." International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems 16, no. 3 (July 2020): 64–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeis.2020070105.
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In recent decades, low-cost airlines have proliferated in the European market offering cheap tickets and increasing popularity. This business model, characterised by cost leadership, has been studied on numerous occasions. The case of the Irish airline Ryanair has presented different challenges over the last few years in relation to its stakeholders, who are shaping the sustainability of the current era of air travel. This business model should be adapted to the current demands of the market, such as corporate social responsibility or care for the environment. The functioning of low-cost airlines regarding the use they make of ERP management systems is also analysed. They aim to balance their cost strategy with the development of internal resources and capabilities for the company's long-term strategy. A major current challenge for low-cost airlines is the implementation of ERP management systems to make strategies oriented to the customer, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility.
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Lopes, Ilídio Tomás, Duarte Pitta Ferraz, and Ana Maria Gomes Rodrigues. "The drivers of profitability in the top 30 major airlines worldwide." Measuring Business Excellence 20, no. 2 (May 16, 2016): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mbe-09-2015-0045.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of human and structural capital on profitability of major airlines and examine whether region, capital ownership and control and strategic alliance play a clustering effect on profitability. Design/methodology/approach Using information from the top 30 airlines worldwide, in particular human and structural capital proxies, a linear model is regressed. Test of hypotheses were performed towards the identification of the influence emerged from variables, such as region, capital ownership and control and strategic alliances, on intellectual capital drivers and profitability. Findings Turnover is driven by human and structural capital factors, namely: employee expenses and benefits; size of board of directors; intangible assets; codeshare agreements; and passenger traffic. Airlines profitability does not depend on region, capital ownership and control or strategic alliance in which the company is integrated. Research limitations/implications In spite of the limitations, we underline the range of time under analysis and the sample size. However, the current approach can be replicated over time and based in other rankings, structured on different metrics and approaches. Practical implications The empirical results provide both an understanding of how independent variables positively affect the performance of airlines and offer some explanation as to the relationship between key characteristics of firms and profitability. Originality/value The research adds value to the current literature by exploring the effects of new intellectual capital drivers on profitability of airlines firms. Focused on a sector that strongly contributes to improve the networking between nations, it provides a new and updated overview.
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Kim, Changjoo, and Hyun Kim. "Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Recent Air Passenger Flows." International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 4, no. 4 (October 2013): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jagr.2013100103.
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Airline mergers and acquisitions (MAs) are on the rise across the globe and have been a growing trend in the U.S. aviation industry in the last few years. MAs are taking several factors into consideration, such as cost efficiency, competition, and geographic coverage. For airlines, these transactions can eliminate overlapping routes and help reduce competition, leading airlines to achieve higher operating margins. For travelers, MAs often lead to lesser flight frequency, higher airfares or longer travel miles. To explore spatial-temporal variations from airline and passenger perspectives, this paper focuses on 55 major airports in the 50 largest cities between 2000 and 2010. The detailed results of passenger flow patterns suggest that some airports have more spatial imbalance than others in terms of passenger travel distances. Further, the findings indicate that the MAs have different effects on passenger flows and traveled distances, and the effect is complexly related to the airport’s spatial status.
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Kaur, Wandeep, and Vimala Balakrishnan. "Improving sentiment scoring mechanism: a case study on airline services." Industrial Management & Data Systems 118, no. 8 (September 10, 2018): 1578–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-07-2017-0300.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of including letter repetition commonly found within social media text and its impact in determining the sentiment scores for two major airlines in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach A Sentiment Intensity Calculator (SentI-Cal) was developed by assigning individual weights to each letter repetition, and tested it using data collected from official Facebook pages of the airlines. Findings Evaluation metrics indicate that SentI-Cal outperforms the baseline tool Semantic Orientation Calculator (SO-CAL), with an accuracy of 90.7 percent compared to 58.33 percent for SO-CAL. Practical implications A more accurate sentiment score allows airline services to easily obtain a better understanding of the sentiments of their customers, hence providing opportunities in improving their airline services. Originality/value Proposed mechanism calculates sentiment intensity of social media text by assigning individual weightage to each repeated letter and exclamation mark thus producing a more accurate sentiment score.
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Kwan, Irene, and Daniel Rutherford. "Assessment of U.S. Domestic Airline Fuel Efficiency since 2010." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2501, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2501-01.
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Aircraft are responsible for about 2.5% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions globally. Total aircraft CO2 emissions are expected to triple by 2050 if present trends continue. Surprisingly little public information is available about the fuel efficiency, and therefore carbon intensity, of U.S. airlines. This research seeks to address this gap by assessing the fuel efficiency of major airlines serving the U.S. domestic market from 2010 to 2012 by using airline-reported fuel and operations data. A frontier model was used to develop an efficiency metric that accounts for the fuel that airlines burn to provide both mobility (passenger miles traveled) and access (frequency of service and number of airports served). Recognizing that many main-line carriers receive service from their regional partners, the fuel efficiency assessment incorporates the fuel and operations of regional carriers into the fuel and operations of their respective main-line carriers. Airlines that operate circuitous routes are also distinguished. Alaska, Spirit, and Southwest were among the most fuel-efficient airlines, in contrast to less-efficient carriers such as Allegiant and American, which consumed an estimated 26% more fuel than Alaska on equivalent operations in 2012. Airlines that were the most efficient overall did not necessarily transport a given passenger more efficiently between each city–city pair, because of differences in technology utilization and operations. From 2010 to 2012, the average rate of improvement was estimated to be 1.1% per year, short of existing climate protection goals, highlighting the importance of continued efforts in both technology and policy to reduce emissions from aviation.
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Suzuki Tofanelo, Renan Eidy, Rodolfo Vieira Nunes, and George André Willrich Sales. "IFRS 16 - Impact on the Assets of the Major Airlines Operating in Brazil." International Journal of Economics and Finance 13, no. 9 (July 25, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v13n9p1.
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The article aims to study the impacts that the adoption of IFRS 16 will have on the financial position, that is, what will be the impact on the total value of assets of airlines operating in the Brazilian market. It is evident that the new accounting of aircraft acquired through operating leases, an essential tool for any company in the sector, is fully in line with the essence of the operation. Therefore, the authors structured the methodology through a comparison of indicators between 3 companies in the Brazilian airline industry, together with data collection through accounting information obtained in explanatory notes on future payments of operating leases. The findings show that, with IFRS 16, there were significant changes in the indebtedness indicators of companies, due to the significant changes in the accounting of assets, affecting the capital structure and profitability of companies.
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Srinidhi, S., and Ajay K. Manrai. "International air transport demand: drivers and forecasts in the Indian context." Journal of Modelling in Management 9, no. 3 (November 11, 2014): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jm2-08-2013-0036.
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Purpose – This paper aims to provide a framework for the airlines to forecast demand, specifically on international routes operated from major metros of the USA and position their services by designing the service positioning matrix. Major benefits include route contemplation, effective fleet scheduling, decisions on aircraft and fuel purchases and developing optimal fare policies. Much effort has been directed to developing forecasts of air transport demand, particularly by airline companies and professional bodies in the air transport industry. However, detailed analysis of the characteristics of demand for air transport over long-haul or international routes is less researched. Design/methodology/approach – Major methodologies used were regression, time series analysis – Holts’ exponential smoothing method. Two econometric models are formulated that capture the direct and indirect drivers of airline demand in the Indian context. Forecasts of demand are made over the next seven years until 2020. Findings – It is interesting to find that demand not only is influenced by direct parameters such as population- and behavior-oriented parameters such as income, but the macroeconomic environment of the country concerned also plays a major role in demand origination. Variables like investment, gross domestic product, etc. contribute a lot in terms of international airline demand. It is also expected that in the Indian context, demand is on a spike path over the next seven years considering the macroeconomic environment and other general economic conditions. Research limitations/implications – This paper is developed and applied in the Indian context. Results may change when applied to different countries depending on their macroeconomic conditions. Practical implications – This study will be useful for any airline in route planning, and in formulating major policy decisions. Other benefits include effective fleet scheduling, decisions on aircraft and fuel purchases and developing optimal fare policies. Originality/value – This paper adds to the existing literature by developing two demand drivers’ models in the Indian context. It is first such attempt to analyse the Indian aviation industry ever since the Indian economic liberalization in 1991. Forecasts provided yield major benefits for airlines operating to and from India.
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Oum, Tae Hoon, and Chunyan Yu. "Cost competitiveness of major airlines: an international comparison." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 32, no. 6 (August 1998): 407–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0965-8564(98)00007-x.
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Oum, Tae Hoon, and Chunyan Yu. "A productivity comparison of the world's major airlines." Journal of Air Transport Management 2, no. 3-4 (September 1995): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0969-6997(96)00007-5.
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Wu, Wann-Yih, and Ying-Kai Liao. "A balanced scorecard envelopment approach to assess airlines' performance." Industrial Management & Data Systems 114, no. 1 (January 28, 2014): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-03-2013-0135.
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Purpose – This study purposed an integrated DEA-BSC model to evaluate the operational efficiency of airlines. To adapt this model, 38 major airlines in the world were selected to assess their relative performance. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical study is employed using a cross-sectional research design. The operational and financial data of 38 leading airlines companies were collected from annual reports and business reports. Specifically, this study integrated the concepts of balanced scorecard (BSC) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) and incorporated seven leading variables and four lagging variables from BSC to implement DEA. Findings – By using the leading and lagging variables to implement DEA, this study not only assessed the efficiency frontiers, input slack, output slacks, and benchmarking learning partners of 38 airlines, but also illustrated how leading indicators are related and influence lagging indicators. In particular, the study results indicated that airlines with excellent performance in the efficient frontiers tended to perform better in energy, capital, and other operating costs. Research limitations/implications – This study presented a DEA-BSC model to integrate the concepts of BSC into DEA. The empirical results showed that the model is more advanced than the capabilities of individual DEA and BSC. This model could also eliminate the faults of each one. Due to the cross-sectional research design of this research, future research should develop the longitudinal study to identify the time series of the influences of leading factors on lagging factors. Practical implications – This study offered an integrated model that incorporated the concepts of BSC and DEA. The leading and lagging factors of BSC were adopted to the evaluation of operational performance of airlines along with DEA. Therefore, BSC has served as the compliment of DEA. Using the DEA-BSC results, such as the efficiency frontiers, the amount of slacks, and benchmark learning partners, business executives could develop their improvement strategies. Originality/value – Since none of previous studies have integrated BSC and DEA to assess the operational efficiency of the airline industry, the results of this study could serve as a baseline for further academic validations, the results could also be very useful for the executives of airline companies to allocate their resources for further improvement.
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Fernando Ramalho Martins, Daniel Wintersberger, and Aline Suelen Pires. "YOUNG WORKERS IN FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM." REVISTA DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS - POLÍTICA & TRABALHO, no. 53 (March 23, 2021): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1517-5901.2020v1n53.53539.
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In this article, we analyse the use of young workers to promote new patterns of work utilisation, illustrating the discussion with an example from Brazilian civil aviation. Data were collected in Brazil during a PhD research. Here we are going to focus on the qualitative element of the study, which draws on 52 interviews with airline and airport workers from a legacy airline (TAM), three low fares companies (GOL, Azul and Webjet) and agencies that provide ground handling services (Swissport and Aero-Park), complemented by three focus groups with a total of 16 workers from low-cost airlines (GOL, Azul, Webjet, Trip). Participants were sampled through local trade union representatives at major airports in São Paulo (Guarulhos and Campinas) and Rio de Janeiro (Galeão and Santos Dumont). Our data shed light on a very dynamic sector that has been making intensive use of a young labour force during a moment of renovation of its competitors, including the low-cost airlines. Thus, our results dwell on the importance of young workers in the implementation of new patterns of labour utilization.
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de Oliveira, Renan P., Alessandro V. M. Oliveira, and Gui Lohmann. "A Network-Design Analysis of Airline Business Model Adaptation in the Face of Competition and Consolidation." Transportation Science 55, no. 2 (March 2021): 532–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2020.1025.
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By focusing on the intrinsic relationship between business models and network configurations in the airline industry, this paper develops a two-stage methodology to estimate the strategic drivers of network design of the major carriers in Brazil. The empirical approach decomposes their domestic network-building rationales into the ones adopted by virtual archetypical carriers. We consider the previously conceived low-cost, full-service, and regional carrier archetypes. Our main contribution is the development of a model that allows airlines’ networks to be strategically designed in a time-evolving pattern, reflecting a dynamically chosen blend of these archetypes. Moreover, we also consider the effects that mergers and acquisitions may have had in inducing changes in these blends. Our results suggest that all analyzed airlines have repositioned themselves through their trajectories to adopt a hybrid configuration, aiming at the intersection of at least two archetypical network-design rationales. Besides, the effects of consolidations point to certain diversions of the acquiring airlines’ domestic network-building rationales toward the ones of the acquired carriers, providing evidence that the consolidations may have served as stepping stones for market-repositioning moves.
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Pereira, Bruno Alencar, and Mauro Caetano. "Business Model Innovation in Airlines." International Journal of Innovation 5, no. 2 (August 30, 2017): 184–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/iji.v5i2.116.
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The business models innovation in airlines can contribute to the creation of value, competitive advantage and profitability with new possibilities of action. The proposed paper aimed to identify the business models adopted by airlines and identify how the innovation occurs at these organizations. The methodology adopted is characterized as empirical, exploratory and descriptive research by multiple case study with three major Brazilian airlines. The results demonstrate that the search for paradigm breaks, related to the dichotomic traditional models of low-cost and full-service, toward hybrid business models occur linearly, as examples highlighted by companies, in which internal changes in business models are considered major organizational innovations.
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Li, Xiao Jin, Qian Si, and Jian Deng. "Study on Evaluation of the Airlines' Competitiveness with Applications in China." Advanced Materials Research 459 (January 2012): 165–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.459.165.
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This paper builds a competitiveness index system for airlines, utilize the thought way of Extenics and AHP, apply matter-element model into the competitiveness of airlines and conduct evaluation and analysis on the competitiveness level of sixteen domestic and foreign airlines which are relatively good. This approach reflects the competitive rating, advantages and disadvantages of airlines’ competitiveness within the evaluation range. Through the evaluation analysis, this paper shows that the competitiveness level of China's four major airlines is in a middle place compared with the competitive level of United States, Europe and other developed countries and needs to be further enhanced through improving management and other measures
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Oum, Tae Hoon, and Chunyan Yu. "An analysis of profitability of the world’s major airlines." Journal of Air Transport Management 4, no. 4 (October 1998): 229–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0969-6997(98)00023-4.
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