A note on the effects of the number of low-cost airlines on small tourist airports' efficiencies

Kenneth Button, Kramberger, Tomaž, Klemen Grobin and Bojan Rosi

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2018, vol. 72, issue C, 92-97

Abstract: This note considers the implications of the presence of low-cost airlines, and particularly their number, on the economic efficiency of tourist oriented, regional airports. Using a combined programming and econometric framework we examine the economic efficiency of twelve airports in North-east Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia over eight years and how this is affected by their use by low cost carriers. The evidence is that the presence of a greater number of such carriers can increase the economic efficiency of regional airports, and, thus in the longer-term, potential positively stimulate the flow of tourists to the airports' hinterland. This influence varies over time as the number of LCC fluctuates and also across the airports studied.

Keywords: Tourist development; Low cost airlines; Regional airport efficiency; Northern Adriatic regional economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.12.003

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