Showing papers in "Journal of Air Transport Management in 2012"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the findings of a survey on European airlines often categorized as low-cost carriers to see to which extent they have changed their business model towards a hybrid strategy, adopting features of full service network airlines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the possible factors limiting the LCC model's growth and explain how the largest LCCs in Europe and the US have subsequently reacted and how they have responded.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the changing interests of academics publishing in air transportation by using the systematic literature review method, the material in the field is field organized, and its chronological evolution examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of an experimental comparison of airplane boarding methods, conducted in a mock Boeing 757 fuselage, located on a Southern California soundstage, with 12 rows of six seats and a single aisle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the intensity of competition among airports affects their technical capabilities by computing airports' markets on the basis of a potential demand approach, and they find that the negative impact of competition has a negative impact on airports' capabilities in Italy during the 2005-2008 period.

TL;DR: In this article, the Cox proportional hazards model is used to develop departure and arrival delay models that show how flight delay propagation can be formulated through repeated chain effects in aircraft rotations, and hazard ratios obtained provide measures of the chances of recovering from flight delays under a variety of situations and the effects that individual contributing factors of flight delays have on airline schedule reliability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined customer knowledge and opinions of airline social responsibility and explored the relationship between it and customer loyalty in the Taiwanese airline market, finding that customers are concerned about social responsibility initiatives by airlines but the perceive its performance levels less than satisfactory.

TL;DR: This paper used simple structural equation modelling to investigate relationships between service quality, airline image, customer value and behavioral intentions for passengers to fly on low cost carriers. But they found that airline image does not itself significantly influence behavioural intentions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the economic impacts on US airlines that may arise from the inclusion of aviation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme from 2012 to 2020, and find that the Scheme would only have a small impact on U.S. airlines and emissions, and that aviation operations would continue to grow.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed demand for domestic air travel in Sweden using aggregated data on passenger quantities and fares, price elasticities are estimated using a simple division of business and leisure travellers.

TL;DR: The authors examines the state of air transport markets and the airline industry following the recession of 2008-2009 and finds that demand for air transport has proved robust in the face of repeated shocks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the bespoke contracts are also incentive-compatible from the passenger's point of view and, in combination with the incentive that airports have to secure high-margin commercial sales to passengers, produce an outcome that is favorable to the passenger.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the factors relevant to any competition assessment of air-rail intermodal agreements and raise the question of whether environmental benefits should be considered as part of the assessment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed cases of de-hubbing in air transport between 1997 and 2009 and examined what happens after de-hobbing by clustering the cases into homogenous groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct a founded route profitability analysis for operational scenarios of low-cost, long-haul services that includes a systematical evaluation of potential revenue sources, and suggest that regular low cost, longhaul operations are possible if the traditional full-service carrier product is effectively unbundled and suitable trunk routes can be identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of regulatory reforms on the technical efficiency of 28 Italian airports between 2000 and 2006 was evaluated using data envelopment analysis, and it was shown that major sources of efficiency gains can be obtained from airside activities, private capital inflows to airport management companies, types of concession agreements and the liberalization of handling services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the US federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program was established to subsidize air service to communities unable to retain commercial carriers after airline deregulation in 1978, and the subsidized service between program communities and commercial hub airports is investigated relative to several essential air service planning objectives.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the comprehensiveness and quality of corporate social responsibility reports published by international airports and build a content analysis rating system using the global reporting initiative guidelines, which is used to evaluate the quality of these reports.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of an independent evaluation of the route development fund in Scotland and highlight the difficulties faced analysing the effects of the scheme and challenges faced by policy makers in making robust policy intervention decisions, given the uncertainty surrounding their effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Delphi panel of aviation experts is used to anticipate probable and wildcard scenarios on the future of aviation in 2025, including longhaul growth primarily linked to emerging countries, a number of substitution threats, liberalization and deregulation, increasing industry vulnerability, finiteness of fossil fuels, and emissions trading.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of domestic origin-destination air traffic and fares at the top 200 airports in the US between 1990 and 2008, with a focus on the impacts of low-cost carrier entry and growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify relationships between cabin service directors and flight attendants and service climate, psychological contracts, work engagement, service performance and cue perception ability and find that relational psychological contracts have a positive influence on work engagement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the differences between business and leisure travelers flying by low cost airlines were analyzed and the similarities between the travelers were found between the two types of travelers in a sample of tourists in Catalonia, one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss selected antitrust implications of airline alliances and present an assessment of efficiencies triggered by various degrees of airline cooperation, and find that most types of efficiency can only be considered as partly immunity-specific and should therefore be assessed of the economic effects of antitrust immunity only with the respective incremental benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored users loyalty to airlines' websites, by examining differences among users belonging to the Y, X and baby boomer generations, and showed that significant differences exist among the various generations, implying airlines need to fine-tune their online strategies to retain customer loyalty.

TL;DR: Given the increasing volatility in the economic performance of airlines, partially reflecting the dynamics of demand for air transport and the fixed costs associated with the industry, all stakeholders need to consider appropriate strategies for better managing the risks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the use of different approaches for measuring efficiency in 65 major Brazilian airports, and several programming-based estimates were generated to allow testing for significant differences in returns-to-scale and input-decreasing/output-increasing potentials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the connectivity of the Spanish airport system between 2001 and 2007 and found that SkyTeam and Star achieved a larger connectivity share through the growth of indirect services provided through their northern European hubs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce classification criteria for airports that focus on the comparability of passenger terminal facilities, such as terminal size in terms of number of gates, passenger characteristics and international/domestic passenger volumes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how work engagement and job tenure moderate the effect of burnout on job performance of flight attendants, and found that flight attendants with high levels of work engagement report greater job performance when they perceive low levels of burn out.