Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programmes

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1469-1475

  Carlsson, Fredrik ^a   Löfgren, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; COST; MARKET; WELFARE IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33746173339     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500419608     Document Type: Article

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