Introduction and Overview

The Global Airline Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Belobaba, Peter ^a   Odoni, Amedeo ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergence of LCCs as formidable competitive force; Freight tonne kilometers (FTK); Global airline industry evolution and current status; Global airline industry providing service to virtually every country; LCC sector of global airline industry weaknesses of legacy carriers; Passenger air traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPK); US airline industry passenger revenues; US and World airline passenger load factors; World airline net profits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879820607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744734.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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