Management of airports in extreme winter conditions-some lessons from analysing the efficiency of Norwegian airports

Research in Transportation Business and Management

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-60

  Merkert, Rico ^a   Mangia, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Go Mobility srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airport management; Efficiency; Regional airports; Winter operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865378217     PISSN: 22105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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