Low-cost airlines: A failed business model?

Transportation Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-219

  Button, Kenneth ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline finances; Airline markets; Low cost airlines; Market stability

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; BUSINESS; ECONOMICS; MODEL;

EID: 84861380944     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.51.2.0197     Document Type: Article

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