This paper investigates the airport privatization issue. One congested hub and two linked
local airports serve symmetric hub carriers. Passengers valuate the congestion delay cost …

This study presents a biobjective hub‐and‐spoke (HS) network design model for the global
air passenger networks. The model explores the tradeoff between the total airline cost …

This paper investigates airline network competition where two (identical) hub carriers aim to
establish new subsidiaries offering differentiated non-stop services on their rim-routes. Each …

This study investigates the entry route choices of low‐cost carriers (LCCs). A LCC considers
whether to enter a spoke route or a rim route of a major carrier's hub‐spoke network. Under …

A hub carrier operates one hub linking multiple non-hub cities. It merges with a low cost
carrier whose nonstop service competes with its one-stop service. The merged airline's profit …

This study addresses the problem of hub airport privatization in a domestic airline market,
where each country has one major hub airport and multiple local airports. We find that when …

This paper addresses the problem of hub airport privatization, similar to the studies by
Matsumura and Matsushima (2012) and Mantin (2012). However, differentiating from their …

From the viewpoint of regional policy, the hub airport is crucial for developing the regional
economy. Because various goods, services, and information are gathered in the hub city …

In this chapter, we consider a combination of a traditional dualistic economy model with a
differentiated mixed oligopoly model. As shown in Chap. 3, Harris and Todaro [7], who …

Transportation sector provides connections between points, cities and countries around
world and make the distances closer. In other words, in an economic sense the needbased …