The Global Airline Industry.

Intro -- Aerospace Series List -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview -- 1.1 Introduction: The Global Airline Industry -- 1.2 Overview of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment -- 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 -- Chapter 3: Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand -- 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 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Airline Pricing Theory and Practice -- 4.1 Airline Prices and O-D Markets -- 4.2 Differential Pricing -- 4.3 Recent Trends in Airline Pricing -- 4.4 Airline Pricing Strategies -- References -- Chapter 5: Airline Revenue Management -- 5.1 Computerized Revenue Management Systems -- 5.2 Flight Overbooking -- 5.3 EMSR Model for Flight Leg Revenue Optimization -- 5.4 Network Revenue Management -- 5.5 Revenue Management for Less Restricted Fare Structures -- References -- Chapter 6: Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity -- 6.1 Airline Cost Categorization -- 6.2 Operating Expense Comparisons -- 6.3 Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs -- 6.4 Measures of Airline Productivity -- References -- Chapter 7: The Airline Planning Process -- 7.1 Fleet Planning -- 7.2 Route Planning -- 7.3 Airline Schedule Development -- 7.4 The Future: Integrated Airline Planning -- References -- Chapter 8: Airline Schedule Optimization.

8.1 Schedule Optimization Problems -- 8.2 Fleet Assignment -- 8.3 Schedule Design Optimization -- 8.4 Crew Scheduling -- 8.5 Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Crew Pairing Optimization -- 8.6 Future Directions for Schedule Optimization -- References -- Chapter 9: Airline Flight Operations -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Regulation and Scheduling -- 9.3 Flight Crew Activities during a Typical Flight -- 9.4 Summary -- List of Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 10: Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Irregular Operations -- 10.3 Robust Airline Scheduling -- 10.4 Directions for Ongoing and Future Work on Schedule Recovery from Irregular Operations -- References -- Chapter 11: Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry* -- 11.1 Alternative Strategies for the Employment Relationship -- 11.2 Labor Relations in the US Airline Industry -- 11.3 Labor Relations in the Airline Industry in Other Countries1 -- 11.4 Human Resource Management at Airlines -- 11.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Aviation Safety and Security -- 12.1 Safety -- 12.2 Security -- References -- Chapter 13: Airports -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 General Background -- 13.3 Physical Characteristics -- 13.4 Capacity, Delays, and Demand Management -- 13.5 Institutional, Organizational, and Economic Characteristics -- References -- Chapter 14: Air Traffic Control -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The Generic Elements of an ATC System -- 14.3 Airspace and ATC Structure -- 14.4 ATC Operations -- 14.5 Standard Operating Procedures -- 14.6 Capacity Constraints -- 14.7 Congestion and Air Traffic Flow Management -- 14.8 Future ATC Systems -- References -- Chapter 15: Air Transport and the Environment -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Limiting Aviation's Environmental Impact: The Role of Regulatory Bodies.

15.3 Airport Water Quality Control -- 15.4 Noise -- 15.5 Air Quality -- 15.6 Impact of Aviation on Climate -- 15.7 Alternative Fuels -- 15.8 Summary and Looking Forward -- References -- Chapter 16: Information Technology in Airline Operations, Distribution and Passenger Processing -- 16.1 Information Technology in Airline Planning and Operations -- 16.2 Airline Distribution Systems -- 16.3 Distribution Costs and e-Commerce Developments -- 16.4 Innovations in Passenger Processing -- References -- Chapter 17: Critical Issues and Prospects for the Global Airline Industry -- 17.1 Evolution of US and Global Airline Markets -- 17.2 Looking Ahead: Critical Challenges for the Global Airline Industry -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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