Cost competitiveness of major airlines: an international comparison

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32A, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 407-422

  Oum, Tae Hoon ^a   Yu, Chunyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORT; COMPETITIVENESS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; TRANSPORT ECONOMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUNCTIONS;

COST COMPETITIVENESS; MULTILATERAL INDEX PROCEDURE;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0032137530     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(98)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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