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Impact of Price Regulation on Airport Charges

Ahmed Fadlaoui — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:55 +0000

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 to the literature discussion whether airports have the incentive to charge excessive tariffs and if they do so whether price regulation is the right method to avoid this incentive. Results and insights gained from the thesis research will be treated in this article.

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Airports Developing Air Services for Cargo versus Passenger Airlines

Floris de Haan — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:54 +0000

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 cargo airlines are being targeted by airports. At the yearly held World Route Development Forum airlines are approached by airports in attempts to convince airlines of flying to their respective airports. This paper provides an overview of the differences in approaching cargo airlines versus passenger airlines. Besides, for sure, cargo plays a contributing role in the revenue generation of passenger airlines, once a passenger airline has decided to start operating a route. The majority of the information provided is from experience of the author, having done passenger and cargo air service development for airports, amongst others: Amsterdam, New Delhi and Cologne Bonn.

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Assessing the Efficacy of Dynamic Adaptive Airport Planning

Jan Kwakkel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:03:54 +0000

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 the future turns out to deviate from the future anticipated during the development of the plan. To better cope with uncertainty, flexibility and adaptivity in the plans is necessary. However, how efficacious are such adaptive plans as compared to the more traditional static rigid plans? Using computational techniques, we find that only in a very narrow range of plausible futures a rigid plan performs better than the adaptive plan.

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Bottlenecks at the Departure Concourse of Airports for the 2014 World Cup

Giovanna Miceli Ronzani — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:58 +0000

By Giovanna Miceli Ronzani and Anderson Ribeiro Correia

Brazil will be hosting two important international events: FIFA soccer world cup – 2014 and the Summer Olympic games in 2016. Since several international tourists will be traveling to and within Brazil, the airports must be prepared for these additional passengers. One of the main bottlenecks of Brazilian airports is the emplaning hall, as will be presented in this article.

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