Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 1755-9901 - ISSN (Online) 1755-991X Published by Inderscience Publishers[432 journals]
Authors:Florian Heinitz, Marcus Hirschberger Pages: 3 - 28 Abstract: This contribution adds recent empirical findings on airline passengers' preference structures, putting emphasis on the European short and medium-range leisure flight market. The conducted choice experiments specifically tackled the trade-off between the catering service levels and possible variations of air fares. Based on a segmentation of the continental leisure air market, ternary and binary choice situations - with/without consideration of the status quo offering - were created. Choice-based conjoint measurement and discrete choice analysis were deployed as evaluation techniques. The underlying data was generated by two waves of stated preference surveys of slightly varying questionnaire design. The results include new empirical evidence on part-worths and willingness-to-pay of airline passengers; analysis of onboard sales data and extensive choice experiments; choice-based conjoint measurement and discrete choice analysis; and a new compensatory choice model for the up-selling probability of in-flight services. Keywords: stated preference; airline catering; choice-based conjoint measurement; CBCM; discrete choice analysis; DCA Citation: International Journal of Aviation Management, Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2017) pp. 3 - 28 PubDate: 2018-01-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089438 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2018)
Authors:Robin Ghosh, Katrin Kölker, Ivan Terekhov, Volker Gollnick Pages: 29 - 47 Abstract: Systems analysis requires the modelling of possible future evolutions of the global air transportation system (ATS) as alternative quantitative scenarios. The starting point is the external socio-economic scenarios from which the future realised air passenger demand at city pair level is estimated. From the demand networks successively passenger routes networks and aircraft movements networks are derived for future time steps. This paper shows in sample analyses the results of the global modelling approach at city pair level - applied to the socio-economic scenario of Jorgen Randers' '2052' (2012). Global frequency distributions are shown as a function of great circle distance for sample aircraft sizes at future time steps. The continuous modelling at city pair level from the very beginning and the thinking in successive aircraft generations are especially valuable for global climate impact assessments of spatially dependent non-CO<SUB align="right">2 emissions and needed to tackle the essence of the climate issue of civil aviation. Keywords: aviation network modelling; systems analysis; scenario analysis; market outlook; future development of air transport; policy analysis Citation: International Journal of Aviation Management, Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2017) pp. 29 - 47 PubDate: 2018-01-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089441 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2018)
Authors:Robin Ghosh, Katrin Kölker, Ivan Terekhov, Volker Gollnick Pages: 48 - 84 Abstract: To enable the efficient operation of an airfield and the efficiency of timetable management it is necessary to develop a model that can measure and check the current timetable whether they meet the airfield operation performance. This study develops an optimisation mathematic planning model to formulate objective function of the taxi fuel cost and arrangement of arrival/departure time points for flights timetable within one peak hour. Results show the average taxiing cost and taxiing time for per flight will be 351.25 US dollars and 8.7-19.15 minutes. If pilots control the speed at 15-35 kilometre/hour, the total minimum taxiing time of 20 flights can be decreased to 161-186 minutes. If the pilots use runway 5L to take off/land, it can save 1,299 US dollars in one hour. The interval length of time points at timetable is suggested to be five minutes for easy management and control. Keywords: timetable management; airline schedule reliability; mathematics programming; taxiing time; airfield operation performance; Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport; airfield capacity; apron capacity; time point; apron schedule; runway schedule; shift forward and ba Citation: International Journal of Aviation Management, Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2017) pp. 48 - 84 PubDate: 2018-01-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089444 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2018)
Authors:Munekatsu Usami, Nobuo Akai Pages: 85 - 113 Abstract: Airport management in Japan must pursue efficiency and transparency. This research focuses on the allocation scheme of aviation fuel tax to local governments as an original revenue source for airports. In view of governance, after reviewing the current practice and issues, we discuss a favourable model for promoting transparency, followed by tracing up the current officially-available figures to find out the allocation amounts for each airport of aviation fuel tax, we conduct trial calculations under several assumptions to reveal how changes to the allocation scheme affect the revenue source proportion for each airport. Based on the results, we conduct another trial calculation of the financial balance for state-owned airports and introduce an airport facility charge to clarify the tax scheme to show options for better airport management in Japan. Keywords: aviation fuel tax; transparency; financial balance; individual operation; facility charge Citation: International Journal of Aviation Management, Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2017) pp. 85 - 113 PubDate: 2018-01-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089440 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2018)
Authors:Tamilla Curtis, Dawna Rhoades Pages: 114 - 145 Abstract: Good decisions require that each decision-maker accurately predicts the strategic moves of the other parties. Dealing with prospective low-cost carrier (LCC) entrants is critical for global network airlines. This research focused on two main issues. First, it investigates competitive reaction by established US airlines when they face an LCC entrant in the less congested, small-sized US regional airports. Second, it examines which of the market indicators are most likely to influence airline fares out of small regional airports with the LCC entry. While the first stage of research demonstrated mixed results and did not discover any patterns in airline behaviour with LCC entry due to a large number of other variables influencing airline revenue management. The second stage confirmed that the stage length, number of passengers, number of competitors, number of stops and the oil price do have an impact on airfares. Keywords: low cost airlines; strategies; regional airports; competition; market Citation: International Journal of Aviation Management, Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2017) pp. 114 - 145 PubDate: 2018-01-24T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJAM.2017.089442 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 1/2 (2018)
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