Global Airlines

Provides comprehensive insight into today's global airline industry - now in its 3rd edition!

Extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling textbook, provides an overview of recent global airline industry evolution and future challenges Examines the perspectives of the many stakeholders in the global airline industry, including airlines, airports, air traffic services, governments, labor unions, in addition to passengers Describes how these different players have contributed to the evolution of competition in the global airline industry, and the implications for its future evolution Includes many facets of the airline industry not covered elsewhere in any single book, for example, safety and security, labor relations and environmental impacts of aviation Highlights recent developments such as changing airline business models, growth of emerging airlines, plans for modernizing air traffic management, and opportunities offered by new information technologies for ticket distribution Provides detailed data on airline performance and economics updated through 2013

The air transport industry is highly vulnerable to environmental changes as was seen when the recent COVID-19 pandemic caused most airline operations to cease. However, for decades airlines have been collapsing around the globe as the business of managing airline operations has become stressed due to price competition. This is detrimental to air carriers since air transport products and services are the same. Moreover, it impacts other industries such as tourism, hotels, and restaurants, which contribute to the derailment of economic and social activities. Thus, it is essential to determine new practices and strategies that can allow air transport management to be enriched and to flourish. Global Air Transport Management and Reshaping Business Models for the New Era provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge on the new era of business management on air transport. It provides strategies, technologies, and tools used in the reshaping of the air transport business model. Covering topics such as customer experience, robotic process automation, and airline alliances, this major reference work is an essential resource for airline managers, supply chain specialists, air transport managers, students and faculty of higher education, libraries, researchers, economists, government officials, and academicians.

This book focuses on the factors that support the strengths of international airlines in general and the Asian airline carriers in particular. Defining the quality of human capital as the level of education and the competence of airline employees, it analyzes the efficiency of 39 airlines in various regions, both in terms of production and cost structures. It argues that, despite Asia’s well-developed and globally competitive manufacturing sector, aided by open market practices, its overall service sector still lags far behind more advanced economies. As this does not stop Asia-based carriers from generally being more efficient than their counterparts in Europe and North America, the book investigates how competitiveness analysis of the airline industry can help Asian policymakers better prepare for the liberalization of the service sector, given how crucial this aspect is for the future growth of the Asia-Pacific region. Efficiency and Competitiveness of International Airlines offers a valuable resource for policymakers, airline employees, and researchers and students of microeconomics.

Air Transport Law and Policy in the 1990s is a collection of articles by distinguished experts in the field of international civil aviation, airport management and aircraft manufacturing. It gives an insight into the most topical developments related to the airline industry, environment and infrastructure, multilateral trends in international air transport and aircraft production, finance and airworthiness. The subjects concerned are dealt with from a policy, legal, economic and technical perspective and have as an objective to indicate trends for the next decade. Pablo Mendes de Leon is Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University and a Board Member of the Netherlands Civil Aviation Foundation (Stichting Burgerluchtvaart). The Foundation has as its objective to promote the study of civil aviation from both a Dutch and an international perspective. Emilie Aberson is a member of the Legal Division of the Netherlands Department of Civil Aviation.

"Air Transport Law and Policy in the 1990s" is a collection of articles by distinguished experts in the field of international civil aviation, airport management and aircraft manufacturing. It gives an insight into the most topical developments related to the airline industry, environment and infrastructure, multilateral trends in international air transport and aircraft production, finance and airworthiness. The subjects concerned are dealt with from a policy, legal, economic and technical perspective and have as an objective to indicate trends for the next decade. "Pablo Mendes de Leon" is Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University and a Board Member of the Netherlands Civil Aviation Foundation (Stichting Burgerluchtvaart). The Foundation has as its objective to promote the study of civil aviation from both a Dutch and an international perspective. "Emilie Aberson" is a member of the Legal Division of the Netherlands Department of Civil Aviation.

Aviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research experts examine how to address the problems, and what it would take to achieve genuinely sustainable aviation - looking at technological, policy and demand-management options. Without far-reaching changes the problems caused by aviation can only multiply and worsen. This work seeks to take an important step in diagnosing the problems and in pointing towards their solutions.

More than 500 different airlines with over five aircraft with more than 19 seats are covered in this book. They are listed alphabetically under their respective nationality, with a brief history of each airline. There are illustrations of tailplane logos and details of route destinations.