Network Structure and Airline Scheduling

Jan Brueckner

Working Papers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business

Abstract: This paper provides a simple analysis of the effects of network structure on the scheduling, traffic, and aircraft-size choices of a monopoly airline. The analysis shows that switching to an HS network leads to increases in both flight frequency and aircraft size, while stimulating local traffic in and out of the hub. In addition, HS networks are shown to be preferred by the airline when travel demand is low, when flights are expensive to operate, and when passengers place a high value on flight frequency but are not excessively inconvenienced by the extra travel time required for a connecting trip. The welfare analysis shows that the flight frequency, traffic volumes, and aircraft size chosen by the monopolist are all inefficiently low under both network types. Moreover, in the most plausible case, the monopolist's network choice exhibits an inefficient bias toward the HS network, apparently reflecting an excessive desire to economize on the number of flights.

Date: 2002-05
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.business.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/02-0112.pdf
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.business.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/02-0112.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/02-0112.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Network Structure and Airline Scheduling (2004)
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:ecl:illbus:02-0112

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().