The global airline industry (series: aerospace series (pep))

air transportation economics

airline planning and operations

industrial relations and human resource issues

aviation safety and security

aviation infrastructure and environmental impacts

airline pricing and distribution.

The Global Airline Industry is accompanied by a book companion website hosting databases with regular updates of airline & air transport related statistics and information as well as updates of the book material, housed at . It engenders a crucial understanding of the essential parameters within which the interfacing disciplines in the industry must operate that will benefit both students in air transportation/ aviation management degree programmes as well as professionals working in the industry.

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction and Overview

Peter P. Belobaba and Amedeo Odoni

1.1 Introduction: The Global Airline Industry

1.2 Overview of Chapters

References

2 The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment

Amedeo Odoni

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Background on the International Regulatory Environment

2.3 Airline Privatization and International Economic Regulation

2.4 Airports

2.5 Air Traffic Management

2.6 Key Organizations and Their Roles

2.7 Summary and Conclusions

References

3 Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand

Peter P. Belobaba

3.1 Airline Terminology and Definitions

3.2 Air Transportation Markets

3.3 Origin-Destination Market Demand

3.4 Air Travel Demand Models

3.5 Airline Competition and Market Share

3.6 Chapter Summary

References

4 Fundamentals of Pricing and Revenue Management

Peter P. Belobaba

4.1 Airline Prices and O-D Markets

4.2 Airline Differential Pricing

4.3 Airline Revenue Management

References

5 Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity

Peter P. Belobaba

5.1 Airline Cost Categorization

5.2 Operating Expense Comparisons

5.3 Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs

5.4 Measures of Airline Productivity

References

6 The Airline Planning Process

Peter P. Belobaba

6.1 Fleet Planning

6.2 Route Planning

6.3 Airline Schedule Development

6.4 The Future: Integrated Airline Planning

References

7 Airline Schedule Optimization

Cynthia Barnhart

7.1 Schedule Optimization Problems

7.2 Fleet Assignment

7.3 Schedule Design Optimization

7.4 Crew Scheduling

7.5 Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Crew Pairing Optimization

7.6 Future Directions for Schedule Optimization

References

8 Airline Flight Operations

Alan H. Midkiff, R. John Hansman and Tom G. Reynolds

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Regulation and Scheduling

8.3 Flight Crew Activities During a Typical Flight

8.4 Summary

8.5 Appendix: List of Acronyms

References

9 Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness

Cynthia Barnhart

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Irregular Operations

9.3 Robust Airline Scheduling

9.4 Directions for Ongoing and Future Work on Schedule Recovery from Irregular Operations

References

10 Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry

Jody Hoffer Gittell, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Thomas A. Kochan, Robert McKersie and Greg J. Bamber

10.1 Alternative Strategies for the Employment Relationship

10.2 Labor Relations in the US Airline Industry

10.3 Labor Relations in the Airline Industry in Other Countries

10.4 Human Resource Management at Airlines

10.5 Conclusions

References

11 Aviation Safety and Security

Arnold Barnett

11.1...