Ability to recover full costs through price discrimination in deregulated scheduled air transport markets

Transport Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-230

  Button, Kenneth ^a   Costa, Alvaro ^b   Cruz, Carlos ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COST; DEREGULATION; PRICE DETERMINATION; REFORM PROCESS;

EID: 33847103124     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640600951949     Document Type: Article

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