To Pad or Not to Pad? A Note on the Schedule Padding Behavior of Airlines

Jules Yimga

Applied Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 29, issue 4, 325-332

Abstract: This note provides a rationale for the current trend in airline schedule padding by studying the strategic behaviour of carriers that may decide whether or not to pad their flight beyond the optimal time necessary for flight completion. Using a structural demand and supply model for air travel, our results indicate that the positive price effects of schedule padding we observe are primarily driven by cost increases (inefficiency effect) rather than increases in markup (marketing effect).

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2020.1866155 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:29:y:2022:i:4:p:325-332

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RAEL20

DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1866155

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Economics Letters is currently edited by Anita Phillips

More articles in Applied Economics Letters from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().