Air Transport Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Quality Competition, Industry Equilibrium, and Efficiency in the Price-constrained Airline Market	3
2	When Are Price Differentials Discriminatory?	16
3	Airline Seat Management	34
4	Equilibrium and Welfare in Unregulated Airline Markets	50
5	The Effect of Price and Entry Regulation on Airline Output, Capacity and Efficiency	54
6	Economies of Density Versus Economies of Scale: Why Trunk and Local Service Airline Costs Differ	75
7	Cost Competitiveness of Major Airlines: An International Comparison	94
8	Airline Cost Structure and Policy Implications: A Multi-product Approach for Canadian Airlines	110
9	A Productivity Comparison of the World's Major Airlines	136
10	The World's Airlines: A Cost and Productivity Comparison	151
11	Sources of Economic Rent in the Deregulated Airline Industry	173
12	Empirical Implications and Tests of the Contestability Hypothesis	203
13	Market Conduct in the Airline Industry: An Empirical Investigation	217
14	Hubs and High Fares: Dominance and Market Power in the U.S. Airline Industry	234
15	Modelling and Testing the Effect of Market Structure on Price: The Case of International Air Transport	256
16	Entry, Exit, and Performance in Airline Markets	270
17	Competition in European Aviation: Pricing Policy and Market Structure	285
18	Contestability and Sustainability in Regional Airline Markets	304
19	The Contestability of Airline Markets During the Transition to Deregulation	314
20	Commitment, Sunk Costs, and Entry to the Airline Industry: Reflections on Experience	335
21	Airline Regulation and Market Performance	355
22	Liberalising European Aviation: Is There an Empty Core Problem?	381
23	The Persistence and Pervasiveness of the Regulation of International Trade in Civil Aviation Services	398
24	Surprises of Airline Deregulation	411
25	The Evolution of U.S. Airline Competition	418
26	Benefits and Costs of Airline Mergers: A Case Study	449
27	Airline Alliances: Current Status, Policy Issues, and Future Directions	468
28	Distinct Features of Lasting and Non-lasting Airline Alliances	480
29	Marginal Cost Pricing of Airport Runway Capacity	491
30	Developments in Transport Policy: The US Market in Airport Slots	501
31	Developing Measures of Airport Productivity and Performance: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis	506
32	Price Regulation of Airports: Principles with Australian Applications	519
33	Pricing and Investment in a Transportation Network: The Case of Toronto Airport	532
34	Airport Pricing: Congestion Tolls, Lumpy Investment, and Cost Recovery	553
35	Airport Competition in the Deregulated European Aviation Market	575
36	Fear of Flying? Economic Analyses of Airline Safety	593
37	Airports and Property Values: A Survey of Recent Evidence	613
38	Industrial Reform and Air Transport Development in China	629
39	Challenges and Opportunities for Asian Airlines and Governments	639
40	Liberalisation of the Airline Industry in India	659
	Name Index	669