Airline mergers with low cost carriers

Economics of Transportation

Volumn 2, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 63-71

  Kawamori, Tomohiko ^a   Lin, Ming Hsin ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airline mergers; Antitrust immunity; Hub spoke network carriers; Low cost carriers; Schedule competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881615035     PISSN: 22120122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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