An assessment of the potential for self-connectivity at European airports in holiday markets

Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta and Héctor Rodríguez-Déniz

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 62, issue C, 54-64

Abstract: In a context of intense airport and airline competition, a few European airports have recently started offering self-connection services to price-sensitive holiday passengers travelling with a combination of tickets where the airline/s involved do not handle the transfer themselves. This paper provides an exploratory analysis of the potential and implications of self-connectivity for European airports and airlines using a case study of air travel routes to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean. With the help of a forecasting model based on a zero-inflated Poisson regression, we identify the airports and airlines that have the highest potential to facilitate self-connections in the selected markets. The results also explore some implications of the widespread development of self-connection services in Europe.

Keywords: Tourist airports; Self-connectivity; Holiday travel; Poisson regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.03.022

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