Aerlines Magazine

Top 50 case-studies of airlines and airports excelling in social media

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:28 +0000

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.

e-Book on Social Media usage in the Airline Industry

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:23 +0000

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.

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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