Fundamentals of Pricing and Revenue Management

The Global Airline Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-111

  Belobaba, Peter ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline differential pricing; Airline prices and O D markets; Airline revenue management; Boston seattle fares american airlines, october 1, 2001; EMSRb solution for six nested classes; O D market price differences; Pricing and revenue management fundamentals; Simplified fare structure; Voluntary denied boardings (VOLDB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870390174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744734.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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