The emerging integration of the Canadian and U.S. airline industries

Transportation Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 49-54

  Lewis, Ira ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

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5. See, for example, Air Canada, A review of commercial aviation policy issues, June 1992, and
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18. One study estimated that the absence of a liberal aviation agreement was costing communities on both sides of the border $9 billion in lost economic benefits for 1989 alone. See Brian M. Campbell, U.S.-Canada air transportation: A micro-analytic review of traffic, service and economic under performance, Alexandria, VA: Leeper, Cambridge & Campbell, Inc., 1990 (prepared for U.S. Airports for Better International Air Service).
19. Air Transport Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America, and accompanying Transport Canada News Release No. 24/95, February 24, 1995.
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24. John Burton and Pat Hanlon, "Airline alliances: Cooperating to compete?" Journal of Air Transport Management, 1(4), December 1994, 209-227.
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27. See endnote 4.
28. Oliver Bertin, "Air Canada, United Airlines land marketing agreement," The Globe and Mail(Toronto), June 1, 1995.
29. "The tradeoff between increased efficiency and the potential for reduced competition in international airline alliances is discussed further in Waleed Youssef and Mark Hansen, "Consequences of strategic alliances between international airlines: The case of Swissair and SAS," Transportation Research, 28A(5), September 1994, 415-431.
30. Tae Hoon Oum and A.J. Taylor, "Emerging patterns in intercontinental air linkages and implications for international route allocation policy," Transportation Journal, 34(4), Summer 1995, 6-27. The assertion has also been made that 'strong' modes of interfirm governance, such as those involving an equity stake, are critical to the success of long-term strategic relationships between firms, particularly those that involve investments in information technology. See John Hagedoorn, "Understanding the rationale of strategic technology partnering: Interorganizational modes of cooperation and sectoral differences," Strategic Management Journal, 14(5), July 1993, 371-385.
31. Tae Hoon Oum and A.J. Taylor, "Emerging patterns in intercontinental air linkages and implications for international route allocation policy," Transportation Journal, 34(4), Summer 1995, 6-27. The assertion has also been made that 'strong' modes of interfirm governance, such as those involving an equity stake, are critical to the success of long-term strategic relationships between firms, particularly those that involve investments in information technology. See John Hagedoorn, "Understanding the rationale of strategic technology partnering: Interorganizational modes of cooperation and sectoral differences," Strategic Management Journal, 14(5), July 1993, 371-385.
32. See endnote 6.
33. Donna Mitchell, Asia/Pacific air transport in the 1990s, prepared for Ministerial Task Force on International Air Policy, Transport Canada, May 17, 1991.
34. Ministerial Task Force on International Air Policy, Volume III, Recommendations: U.S transborder issues, Transport Canada, June 1991, p. 105.
35. See endnote 6.