The Global Airline Industry

Peter P. Belobaba is Principal Research Scientist at MIT's International Center for Air Transportation. He currently teaches graduate level courses on The Airline Industry and Airline Management in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and is the Program Manager of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program. He has published articles dealing with airline pricing, revenue management and competition in leading scholarly journals and has served as North American Editor, Journal of Air Transport Management, 1994-1997. See author's previous works for previous book projects. Cynthia Barnhart is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the MIT School of Engineering, Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and serves as Co-Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science). She has developed and teaches courses including Carrier Systems, Optimization of Large-Scale Transportation Systems, Airline Schedule Planning and the Airline Industry. Her research activities have focused on the development of planning models and algorithms to improve carrier operations, particularly airlines. Her work has been published in several books and scholarly journals. Amedeo R. Odoni is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has also served as Co-Director of MIT's Operations Research Center, as Co-Director of the FAA's National Center of Excellence in Aviation Education, and as Editor of the scholarly journal Transportation Science. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and about 100 technical papers (see authors' previous works). Among other distinctions, he is the recipient of the FAA's National Award for Excellence in Aviation Education, the INFORMS Robert F. Herman Award for Lifetime Contributions to Transportation Science and several awards for excellence in teaching. Professor Odoni's recent textbook, Airport Systems: Planning, Design and Management is a standard reference on airport planning and operations.

List of Contributors. Series Preface. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction and Overview (Peter P. Belobaba and Amedeo Odoni). 1.1 Introduction: The Global Airline Industry. 1.2 Overview of Chapters. References. 2 The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment (Amedeo Odoni). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Background on the International Regulatory Environment. 2.3 Airline Privatization and International Economic Regulation. 2.4 Airports. 2.5 Air Traffic Management. 2.6 Key Organizations and Their Roles. 2.7 Summary and Conclusions. References. 3 Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand (Peter P. Belobaba). 3.1 Airline Terminology and Definitions. 3.2 Air Transportation Markets. 3.3 Origin-Destination Market Demand. 3.4 Air Travel Demand Models. 3.5 Airline Competition and Market Share. 3.6 Chapter Summary. References. 4 Fundamentals of Pricing and Revenue Management (Peter P. Belobaba). 4.1 Airline Prices and O-D Markets. 4.2 Airline Differential Pricing. 4.3 Airline Revenue Management. References. 5 Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity (Peter P. Belobaba). 5.1 Airline Cost Categorization. 5.2 Operating Expense Comparisons. 5.3 Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs. 5.4 Measures of Airline Productivity. References. 6 The Airline Planning Process (Peter P. Belobaba). 6.1 Fleet Planning. 6.2 Route Planning. 6.3 Airline Schedule Development. 6.4 The Future: Integrated Airline Planning. References. 7 Airline Schedule Optimization (Cynthia Barnhart). 7.1 Schedule Optimization Problems. 7.2 Fleet Assignment. 7.3 Schedule Design Optimization. 7.4 Crew Scheduling. 7.5 Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Crew Pairing Optimization. 7.6 Future Directions for Schedule Optimization. References. 8 Airline Flight Operations (Alan H. Midkiff, R. John Hansman and Tom G. Reynolds). 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Regulation and Scheduling. 8.3 Flight Crew Activities During a Typical Flight. 8.4 Summary. 8.5 Appendix: List of Acronyms. References. 9 Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness (Cynthia Barnhart). 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Irregular Operations. 9.3 Robust Airline Scheduling. 9.4 Directions for Ongoing and Future Work on Schedule Recovery from Irregular Operations. References. 10 Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry (Jody Hoffer Gittell, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Thomas A. Kochan, Robert McKersie and Greg J. Bamber). 10.1 Alternative Strategies for the Employment Relationship. 10.2 Labor Relations in the US Airline Industry. 10.3 Labor Relations in the Airline Industry in Other Countries. 10.4 Human Resource Management at Airlines. 10.5 Conclusions. References. 11 Aviation Safety and Security (Arnold Barnett). 11.1 Safety. 11.2 Security. References. 12 Airports (Amedeo Odoni). 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 General Background. 12.3 Physical Characteristics. 12.4 Capacity, Delays and Demand Management. 12.5 Institutional, Organizational and Economic Characteristics. References. 13 Air Traffic Control (R. John Hansman and Amedeo Odoni). 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 The Generic Elements of an ATC System. 13.3 Airspace and ATC Structure. 13.4 ATC Operations. 13.5 Standard Procedures. 13.6 Capacity Constraints. 13.7 Congestion and Air Traffic Management. 13.8 Future ATC Systems. References. 14 Air Transport and the Environment (Karen Marais and Ian A. Waitz). 14.1 Introduction. 14.2 Limiting Aviation's Environmental Impact: The Role of Regulatory Bodies. 14.3 Airport Water Quality Control. 14.4 Noise. 14.5 Surface Air Quality. 14.6 Impact of Aviation on Climate. 14.7 Summary and Looking Forward. References. 15 Information Technology in Airline Operations, Distribution and Passenger Processing (Peter P. Belobaba, William Swelbar and Cynthia Barnhart). 15.1 Information Technology in Airline Planning and Operations. 15.2 Airline Distribution Systems. 15.3 Distribution Costs and E-commerce Developments. 15.4 Innovations in Passenger Processing. References. 16 Critical Issues and Prospects for the Global Airline Industry (William Swelbar and Peter P. Belobaba). 16.1 Evolution of US and Global Airline Markets. 16.2 Looking Ahead: Critical Challenges for the Global Airline Industry. References. Index.