Predictive methods for using capacity data to estimate market shares and the extent of risk pooling by airline alliane partners under parallel codesharing

Transportation Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 21-35

  Chen, Chialin ^a   Ren, Yu ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKET CONDITIONS; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 36348950921     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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