Strategic considerations behind the network–regional airline tie ups – A theoretical and empirical study

David Gillen, Hamed Hasheminia and Changmin Jiang

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015, vol. 72, issue C, 93-111

Abstract: The paper examines the strategic vertical relationship between network and regional airlines. We develop a model to illustrate how network airlines can use the contractual relationship with regional airlines as an efficient tool to simultaneously drive out inefficient network airlines and also accommodate other cost efficient network airlines in any specific market. The model is tested on U.S. data using simultaneous and sequential choice models. We find that market size, cost differences between network airlines, as well as cost differences between network and regional airlines, are the chief determinants of the network airlines’ decisions on whether or not to serve a market with their own fleet, as well as how many regional airlines to contract with.

Keywords: Network airlines; Regional airlines; Strategic interaction; Vertical contracting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2014.09.001

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