INTERCONTINENTAL FLIGTHS FROM EUROPEAN AIRPORTS: TOWARDS HUB CONCENTRATION OR NOT?

Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

No 200906, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: This paper empirically analyzes changes in the supply of non-stop intercontinental flights from European airports. We take advantage of OAG data for air services from a rich sample of European airports to intercontinental destinations in the period 2004-2008. Results of the empirical analysis indicate a tendency towards a more balanced distribution of intercontinental flights across European airports. We also find that the demographic size of a region, its sector specialization, the political role of its central city and the proportion of connecting traffic explain the amount of and changes in long-haul air services supplied from European airports.

Keywords: airports; air transportation; intercontinental flights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2009-04, Revised 2009-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-tur and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2009/200906.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: INTERCONTINENTAL FLIGHTS FROM EUROPEAN AIRPORTS: TOWARDS HUB CONCENTRATION OR NOT? (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ira:wpaper:200906

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alicia García ().