Table of Contents
Introduction, Rosário Macário and Eddy Van de Voorde, 1. The future air transport sector: a modified market and ownership structure, Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander, 2. Airlines and their focus on cost control and productivity, Juan Carlos Martin and Conception Roman, 3. Low-cost airlines: strategies and reaction patterns, Rosário Macário and Vasco Reis, 4. Air freight, a key to success, Franziska Kupfer, Hilde Meersman, Evy Onghena and Eddy Van de Voorde, 5. Integrators in a changing world, Marc Pirenne, 6. Airports of the future: essentials for a renewed business model, Rosário Macário, 7. Airport Cities: drivers and effects, Duncan A. Campbell, 8. The economics of airline alliances, Martin Dresner, 9. The transmogrification of hub and spoke airline networks, Ken Button, 10. The impact of airline network strategies for airports: the case of Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle, Jan Veldhuis, 11. Congestion and air transport: a challenging phenomenon, Paul Roosens, 12. Slot allocation and use at hub airports, perspectives for secondary trading, Jaap de Wit and Guillaume Burghouwt, 13. Assessing the impact of Open Skies Agreements, David Pitfield, 14. The impact of North Atlantic passenger services on airports, Anne Graham, 15. Effects of Emission Trading Schemes, Anming Zhang, 16. The air transport industry’s long-term strategic options to meet the energy and environmental challenge, Sveinn Gudmundsson, 17. Competition between airlines and High Speed Rail, Werner Rothengatter, 18. Consolidation in the air transport sector and antitrust enforcement in Europe, Marco Benacchio, 19. Regulatory constraints or how free are you?, Mia Wouters, 20. Air transport marketing, Joel Zhengyi Shon, 21. Major challenges for the future air transport sector, Rosário Macário and Eddy Van de Voorde