Airline Economics in Asia.

Front Cover -- Airline Economics in Asia -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Members -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1. Competition and Regulatory Change -- 2. Passenger Demand and Satisfaction -- 3. Industry Performance -- 4. Interdependence of Airports and Airlines -- 5. Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 2 Low-cost Carriers in the Japanese Aviation Market -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent History of Japanese Domestic Market Related to Low-cost Carriers -- 3. Movement of Low-cost Carriers -- 4. Competition between LCCs and High-speed Rail -- 5. Open Sky Policy in Japan -- 6. Boost of Inbound Visitors in Japan and the Impact of LCC -- 7. Summary and Barriers of LCCs' Expansion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Strategic Response from Singapore Airlines to the Rapid Expansion of Global, Full-service Hub Carriers in the Mid... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. ME3's Location Advantages -- 3. Competing on Quality -- 3.1. Service Features -- 3.2. Pricing -- 3.3. Other Strengths of Singapore Airlines -- 4. Lessons from Singapore Airlines -- 5. Conclusion -- Reference -- Chapter 4 Market Development and Aviation Liberalization in Central Asia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The International Aviation Market in Central Asia -- 3. Market Analysis for Central Asia -- 4. Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5 Airline Deregulation, Market Competition, and Impact of High-speed Rail on Airlines in China -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History and Deregulation of China's Airline Industry -- 2.1. Civil Aviation under Central Planning (before 1978) -- 2.2. Transition from Central Planning to Market Orientation with Ongoing Reforms (1978-1996) -- 2.3. Deregulation of Airfare and Route Operation, and Privatization (after 1997) -- 2.3.1. Deregulation of Airfare.

2.3.2. Deregulation of Route Entry and Exit -- 2.3.3. Privatization -- 3. Airline Consolidations and Competition in China's Domestic Market -- 3.1. Airline Consolidations in China -- 3.1.1. Elimination of the Regional Airlines -- 3.1.2. Consolidation into the "Big Three" Airline Groups -- 3.1.3. Two Large-scale Airline Mergers -- 3.2. Measurement of Airline Competition in China's Domestic Market -- 4. Effects of HSR on the Chinese Airline Industry -- 4.1. HSR Development in China -- 4.2. Impact of HSR on the Chinese Airline Industry -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Air Transport and High-speed Rail Interactions in China: Review on Impacts of Low-cost Carriers, Rail Speed, and ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. LCC and HSR Interaction -- 2.1. LCC and HSR Development in China -- 2.2. LCC and HSR Competition in China -- 3. The Impact of HSR Speed on Airlines -- 3.1. The Travel-time Effect of HSR Speed on Airlines -- 3.2. The Safety Effect of HSR Speed on Airlines -- 3.3. HSR Speed Effect on Airlines -- 4. Airline-HSR Integration -- 4.1. Cooperation between Airlines/airports and HSR -- 4.2. Co-location of Airport and HSR Station -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Regulatory Changes in International Air Transport and Their Impact on Tourism Development in Asia Pacific -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regulation and Deregulation in Air Transport -- 2.1. Regulation History -- 2.2. Deregulation and Open Skies -- 3. The Impact of Air Transport Deregulation on the Tourism Industry -- 3.1. Low-cost Carriers -- 3.2. Codeshare and Airline Alliance -- 3.3. Hub-and-spoke System -- 3.4. The Impact of Open Skies -- 4. A Case Study of the Hong Kong-Bangkok Market -- 5. Next Step Liberalization in Air Transport -- 5.1. Expanding the Freedoms of the Air -- 5.1.1. Seventh Freedom -- 5.1.2. Eighth and Ninth Freedoms.

5.2. Relaxing Ownership Restrictions -- 6. Conclusion and Remaining Issues for Future Research -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 8 The Effect of Levels of Air Service Availability on Inbound tourism demand from Asia to Australia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economics of Tourism Demand and Air Transportation -- 2.1. International Tourism Demand -- 2.2. Factors Influencing Tourism Demand -- 2.3. Air Transport and Tourism Demand -- 3. Causality in Aviation and Tourism Demand -- 3.1. The Nature of Simultaneity between Aviation and Tourism Demand -- 3.2. Empirical Evidence on the Causality -- 4. Study Context and Data -- 4.1. Australia and Asia -- 4.2. Data -- 5. Method -- 5.1. The Endogeneity Problem -- 5.2. Various Forms of Endogeneity in Panel Data -- 5.3. The Dynamic System Generalized Method of Moments Estimator -- 5.4. Testing the Model -- 6. Results and Discussion -- 6.1. Total Inbound Visitors -- 6.2. Travel Purpose -- 6.2.1. Business -- 6.2.2. Visiting Friends and Relatives -- 6.2.3. Holiday -- 6.3. Implications -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Service Quality, Passenger Expectations and Profitability in the Chinese Airline Industry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Methodology -- 2.1. On-time performance of scheduled flights -- 3. Empirical Results -- 4. Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 The Impact of Outsourcing on Airlines' Performance: Empirical Evidence from Asia and Countries in the Pacific -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concept of Outsourcing -- 2.1. Description of Performance Enhancing Attributes of Outsourcing -- 2.2. Outsourcing and Airline Performance -- 3. Data Descriptions and Empirical Approach -- 3.1. Technical Efficiency Estimation -- 3.2. Measuring Productivity Change of Airlines -- 3.3. Generalized Method of Moments Estimator -- 3.4. Results of Airlines Technical Efficiency and Productivity.

3.5. Results for the Impact of Outsourcing on Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Airlines -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11 Total-factor Output Efficiencies of ASEAN Airports -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results and Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 12 The Changing Dynamics and Roles of New Zealand's Airports: An Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Performance and Network Change in New Zealand Airports -- 3. The Role of Airports in Economic Development -- 3.1. The Role of Airports in Imports and Exports -- 3.2. The Role of Airports in Tourism Growth -- 4. Impact of Airline Operations and Tourism Growth on Airport Planning and Development -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Analyses of Risk-sharing Contract of Airport and Airline Vertical Relationship: Bargaining and Agency Analyses -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aviation Overview for the Asia Pacific Region -- 1.2. Vertical Arrangements and Linear Risk-sharing Contracts -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. The Noto Airport Load Factor Guarantee Mechanism - The Real-life Case Study -- 4. The Model -- 4.1. The Setting -- 4.2. Overview of the Results -- 4.2.1. Slope -- 4.2.2. Intercept or a Reference Point -- 4.3. Analysis -- 4.3.1. Framework of Analysis - Two-stage Analysis -- 4.4. Discussion of the Results -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Index.

Covers low-cost carrier growth in Japan, competition against full service hub carriers in the Middle East, aviation market liberalization in Central Asia, high-speed-rail and airline competition in China, air transport and tourism in Asia and Australia, airline performance and outsourcing, airports development, and airport-airline cooperation.

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