The Global Airline Industry

by Belobaba, Peter; Odoni, Amedeo; Barnhart, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780470740774
• ISBN10: 0470740779
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-18
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In today's rapidly changing air transport environment, the aviation professionals require access to advanced and comprehensive knowledge, coupled with an in-depth understanding of the needs of the airline industry. Drawing on the editors' extensive experience with airline and air transport issues, The Global Airline Industry provides a definitive introduction to our air transportation system. Featuring contributors from 3 different continents, all affiliated to MIT's Global Airline Industry Program, this book's unique and holistic perspective is allied with detailed coverage of 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 www.wiley.com/belobaba . 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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Introduction and Overview

Peter P. Belobaba and Amedeo Odoni

Introduction: The Global Airline Industry

Overview of Chapters

References

The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment

Amedeo Odoni

Introduction

Background on the International Regulatory Environment

Airline Privatization and International Economic Regulation

Airports

Air Traffic Management

Key Organizations and Their Roles

Summary and Conclusions

References

Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand

Peter P. Belobaba

Airline Terminology and Definitions

Air Transportation Markets

OriginûDestination Market Demand

Air Travel Demand Models

Airline Competition and Market Share

Chapter Summary

References

Fundamentals of Pricing and Revenue Management

Peter P. Belobaba

Airline Prices and O-D Markets

Airline Differential Pricing

Airline Revenue Management

References

Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity

Peter P. Belobaba

Airline Cost Categorization

Operating Expense Comparisons

Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs

Measures of Airline Productivity

References

The Airline Planning Process

Peter P. Belobaba

Fleet Planning

Route Planning

Airline Schedule Development

The Future: Integrated Airline Planning

References

Airline Schedule Optimization

Cynthia Barnhart

Schedule Optimization Problems

Fleet Assignment

Schedule Design Optimization

Crew Scheduling

Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Crew Pairing Optimization

Future Directions for Schedule Optimization

References

Airline Flight Operations

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

Introduction

Regulation and Scheduling

Flight Crew Activities During a Typical Flight

Summary

Appendix: List of Acronyms

References

Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness

Cynthia Barnhart

Introduction

Irregular Operations

Robust Airline Scheduling

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

References

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

Alternative Strategies for the Employment Relationship

Labor Relations in the US Airline Industry

Labor Relations in the Airline Industry in Other Countries

Human Resource Management at Airlines

Conclusions

References

Aviation Safety and Security

Arnold Barnett

Safety

Security

References

Airports

Amedeo Odoni

Introduction

General Background

Physical Characteristics

Capacity, Delays and Demand Management

Institutional, Organizational and Economic Characteristics

References

Air Traffic Control

John Hansman and Amedeo Odoni

Introduction

The Generic Elements of an ATC System

Airspace and ATC Structure

ATC Operations

Standard Procedures

Capacity Constraints

Congestion and Air Traffic Management

Future ATC Systems

References

Air Transport and the Environment

Karen Marais and Ian A. Waitz

Introduction

Limiting AviationÆs Environmental Impact: The Role of Regulatory Bodies

Airport Water Quality Control

Noise

Surface Air Quality

Impact of Aviation on Climate

Summary and Looking Forward

References

Information Technology in Airline Operations, Distribution

and Passenger Processing

Peter Belobaba, William Swelbar and Cynthia Barnhart

Information Technology in Airline Planning and Operations

Airline Distribution Systems

Distribution Costs and E-commerce Developments

Innovations in Passenger Processing

References

Critical Issues and Prospects for the Global Airline Industry

William Swelbar and Peter Belobaba

Evolution of US and Global Airline Markets

Looking Ahead: Critical Challenges for the Global Airline Industry

References

Index

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