Airline Efficiency

by John D. Bitzan (Editor), James Peoples (Editor), Wesley W. Wilson (Editor)

Overview

An efficient air transport system is critical to countries attaining and sustaining healthy economies in an increasingly interconnected world economy. Competing successfully now means quick shipping over long distances at reasonable rates. Societies also prosper when people from different countries can travel around the world using efficient transport. This volume includes literature surveys and original empirical research examining airline efficiency in the twenty first century. Topics cover airline productivity, sources of airline efficiency, the cost and scope of operations in airline transport; airline productivity for different global regions; methodologies estimating productivity growth and efficiency. Further chapters on sources of airline efficiency examine fuel efficiency differences, efficiency in different stages of production, and the contributions of technological change, mergers, and low-cost carrier competition to efficiency. Chapters on the cost and scope of operations examine all-cargo carrier efficiency, gains from airline/high speed-rail cooperation, and airport economies of scope in passenger and freight operations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785609404
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	06/10/2016
Series:	Advances in Airline Economics , #5
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Edited by John D. Bitzan, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA James H. Peoples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Editorial Board Members xi

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview John D. Bitzan James H. Peoples Wesley W. Wilson 1

Chapter 2 Airline Productivity and Efficiency: Concept, Measurement, and Applications Chunyan Yu 11

Chapter 3 Benchmarking Us All-Cargo Carriers: A Productivity and Cost Competitiveness Analysis Matteo Balliauw Hilde Meersman Evy Onghena Eddy Van De Voorde 55

Chapter 4 Ground and Network Efficiency Drivers in African Airlines: A Two-Stage Network Dea Approach Carlos Pestana Barros Peter Wanke 73

Chapter 5 Modeling Airline Efficiency - A Comparison Of International Airlines Using Data Envelopment Analysis Stefan Sjögren 103

Chapter 6 The Effects of Mergers on Airline Performance and Social Welfare Jia Tan Xiaowen Fit Tae Hoon Own Kun Wang 131

Chapter 7 Airline Mergers in the United States since 2005: What Impact Have They Had on Airline Efficiency? Mark R. Greer 161

Chapter 8 Air Transport and High Speed Railway: How Would Collaboration Affect Service Performance? Mikio Takebayashi 197

Chapter 9 Managing Freight Operations Chains of Passenger Airlines at International Airports Rico Merkert David Wayne Alexander 221

Chapter 10 Multi-Product Cost Analysis of Us Airports Patrick Mccarthy 243

Chapter 11 Regional Development and Airport Productivity in China Clement Kong Wing Chow Michael Ka Yiu Fung Japher Sebastian Law 283

Chapter 12 Airline Fuel Efficiency: Assessment Methodologies and Applications in the U.S. Domestic Airline Industry Bo Zou Irene Kwan Mark Hansen Dan Rutherford Nabin Kafle 317

Chapter 13 The Convergence of Low-Cost and Legacy Airline Operations Kevin E. Henrickson Wesley W. Wilson 355

Editorial Reviews

Transport, economics, business, and engineering specialists from Australia, Europe, North America, Asia, and Brazil offer 13 chapters on airline efficiency. They address airline productivity, including productivity growth for different global regions and methodologies used to estimate growth and efficiency; sources of efficiency, including fuel efficiency differences, efficiency in different stages of production, and the contributions of technological change, mergers, and low-cost carrier competition; and the cost and scope of operations, including all-cargo efficiency, gains from airline/high-speed rail cooperation, and airport economics of scope in passenger and freight operations.

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