Estimating Passenger Benefits from Airline Service Quality: Nonstop vs. Connecting Flight Frequencies

Jan K. Brueckner and Ricardo Flores-Fillol

No 12571, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper estimates passenger benefits from airline flight frequencies, recognizing that this task is less straightforward for connecting trips than for nonstop travel. In doing so, the paper joins Yuan and Jia (2026) as the only other study in the literature that confronts the problem of creating a flight-frequency measure for connecting trips. With airlines providing a crucial service in modern economies, the ability to measure the quality of that service is essential, not just for the nonstop service that links larger cities but for the connecting trips involving smaller endpoints that many passengers rely on.

Keywords: flight frequency; benefits; airline service quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L15 L93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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