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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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Networks in Aviation – Strategies and Structures

Abdullah Nergiz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:49 +0000

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 Dr.Christoph Franz (CEO of Lufthansa) welcomes readers. Since Lufthansa Group serves more than 270 destinations under variousbrand names such as Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, bmi, Brussels Airlines, and Germanwings,Dr.Franz’s foreword is symbolically important.

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Ethical Issues in Aviation

John Stoop — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:46 +0000

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 opportunity for aviation students, scientists and practitioners to get explicitly acquainted with ethics in aviation beyond the level of codes of conduct, normative behavior and anecdotic, operational dilemmas.

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