 Analysis of the effect of bundled airport privatization on an airline networkRyuichi Tani, Ibuki Takashima, Teppei Kato, Toru Tamura and Kenetsu Uchida Transport Policy, 2022, vol. 124, issue C, 203-211 Abstract: Depopulated regions face declines in traffic demand for airline service. The airline network in Hokkaido, Japan, plays an important role in the regional economy, healthcare, and sightseeing. Toward maintaining this airline network, the “bundled privatization” of airports has been discussed. Under such a system, several airports are privatized as a package for management by a single company. This study proposes a model for analyzing the behaviors of airport operators, airline companies, and passengers when bundled privatization is introduced to an airline network. Under bundled privatization, an airport management company can determine the landing fees of all airports such as to maximize the profits of all its airports, while an airline company can determine its service frequencies and aircraft sizes such as to maximize its profit. As a result of these two profit-maximization behaviors, an equilibrium state is obtained. The proposed model is applied to the airline network in Hokkaido, and the results of numerical calculations are discussed. Keywords: Airline; Landing fee; Airport privatization; Traffic demand; Passenger behavior (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:trapol:v:124:y:2022:i:c:p:203-211 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.04.021 Access Statistics for this article Transport Policy is currently edited by Y. Hayashi More articles in Transport Policy from Elsevier |
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