Call for papers of the International Air Transport and Operations Symposium (ATOS 2010) extended until January 4th 2010! ATOS 2010 will take place on April 14 -15, 2010. The hot topic of ATOS 2010 is how air transport can evolve to continue to add value … Read more…
Related to the article “Let’s Be Social at 30,000 Feet!”, an overview has been compiled of 50-case studies of airlines and airports excelling in social media.
Related to the article “Let’s Be Social at 30,000 Feet!”, an e-Book was published in april 2011 compiled by Katy Leuschner, Emily Law,Katie Hibson, Alexis Groves, and Jessica Kuhn. I and Katy Leuschner.
Airport Charges and Price Regulation in Germany
As part of the master program Transport and Supply Chain Management (TSCM) at VU University in Amsterdam I did a thesis research concerning the impact of price regulation on airport charges.The research was aimed to provide an answer … Read more…
Over the years Air Service Development has developed into a valuable tool for airports to keep their fate into their own hands. By actively providing air service analyses to airlines,airports are able to expand their client and route portfolio. Besides actively targeting passenger airlines also … Read more…
With this book one can discover the main aspects of an airline’s network structure. It iswritten clearly, which allows also people without profound knowledge about network managementto understand the topics adequately. The book is, however, also interesting formanagers in the industry: the preface written by … Read more…
The book is dedicated to the first 7 students who have completed the Aviation Ethics course at Lewis University. This emphasizes the need to explicitly incorporate ethics in education and training. As such, the book is a novelty in its kind and provides a unique … Read more…
Germany has introduced in January 2011 an aviation tax (luftverkehrsabgabe). The effects of the tax are as expected : small and medium sized airports which are dependent on low cost carriers have suffered a loss of passengers. The larger airports have grown. For the country … Read more…
Liberalization and deregulation has led to profound changes the airline industry. Diminished governmental influence stimulated airlines to increase their revenues gained by the sales of tickets. Nowadays, airlines issue tickets that are characterized by a great diversity of restrictions to achieve demand segmentation. Most of … Read more…
Airliners intending to implement mergers witheconomic effects in the EU aviation transportmarkets have to seek the previous authorizationof the European Commission under the EuropeanMerger Control Regulation (EMCR). Since 1989the Commission blocked two airliners mergers (Ryanair/Aer Lingus, Case M.4439 and Olympic/Aegean Airlines, Case M.5830) and conditionally … Read more…
Airport Strategic Planning focuses on the development of plans for the medium–term and long-term development of an airport. Strategic planning can be done in many different ways. For airports, the dominant approach is Airport Master Planning, which results in a static plan that fails if … Read more…
