 Examination of low-cost carriers' development at secondary airports using a comprehensive world airport classificationWai-Hung Wong, Anming Zhang, Tommy King-Yin Cheung and Jeremy Chu Journal of Air Transport Management, 2019, vol. 78, issue C, 96-105 Abstract: The existing literature appears to suggest that low-cost carriers (LCCs) tend to focus their business at “secondary airports†instead of “primary airports†. However, there lack systematic quantifiers to distinguish the two airport types. The present paper investigates whether this remark still holds today, and if not, whether the change is a worldwide phenomenon. We first establish a systematic parameterization to classify airport types, based on aviation network connectivity, regional importance, and MAR (multi-airport region) effects. With this classification of world airports, our analysis of the latest empirical data shows that some previously indubitable features of LCCs might have slowly changed. In particular, LCCs are expanding fast at both upper-tiers’ and lower-tiers’ airports, and there is a trend of shifting airport choice from lower-tiers’ to upper-tiers’ airports for LCCs in some continents. The evolving competition relationship between the full-service carriers (FSCs) and LCCs is also discussed. Keywords: Low-cost-carriers; Airport classification; Multi-airport region (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:78:y:2019:i:c:p:96-105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2019.01.007 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Air Transport Management is currently edited by Anne Graham More articles in Journal of Air Transport Management from Elsevier |
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