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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article uses multidimensional scaling and correspondence analysis to explore how international airline passengers position various air carriers. The analysis has produced perceptual maps of relative...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 78, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTRYING TO KEEP CUSTOMERS SATISFIED CONTINENTAL AIRLINES: SHOOTING FOR THE `ULTIMATE SERVICE' These days most airline passengers have some version of an airline service nightmare etched in their minds. Excitement at...
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From:Monthly Labor ReviewPeer-ReviewedBetween 1997 and 2014, multifactor productivity gains in air transportation were the second highest among 63 industries and represented a considerable share of the nation's total multifactor productivity growth. Labor...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 112, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAirline industry update At United Air Lines, the Air Line Pilots revived its 1987 offer to buy the parent UAL Corp., joining other prospective purchasers. Acquisition attempts were spurred by United's 1988 profit of...
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 58, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Following the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, the degree of competition among air carriers, increased significantly. Airlines resorted to many ways--including code-sharing--in response to...
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From:OR/MS Today (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1970, I visited some friends in Santa Barbara, Calif., who at the time were students at U.C. Santa Barbara. A year earlier, an offshore oil rig known as Platform A, located a few miles off the coast from the UCSB...
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe oligopolistic tendencies of the airline industry are even more pronounced in Canada than in the United States. In the late 1990s, only two airlines, Air Canada and Canadian Airlines, accounted for approximately 80...
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From:RAND Journal of Economics (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article investigates the consumer welfare consequences of the recent code-share agreement between Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines. We develop a discrete choice model based on individual flight...
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From:Architecture (Vol. 88, Issue 9)The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will design the corporate headquarters for United Airlines at O'Hare International Airport....
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAbstract It is difficult for the firm competing through information technology resources to gain a sustainable advantage because systems are easy to imitate and substitute resources are often available to...
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From:The McKinsey QuarterlyPeer-ReviewedNowhere have signs of an economic upturn in the US economy been welcomed more eagerly than in the commercial-airline industry. Already ailing from the global economic slump early in 2001, airlines then became the prime...
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In this article, the energy efficiency of airlines has been studied with number of employees, capital stock, and tons of aviation kerosene as the inputs and revenue tonne kilometers, revenue passenger...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 18, Issue 36)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has again joined the search for a downed plane off the coast of Massachusetts. The Coast Guard last week asked NOAA to send the Whiting, an advanced hydrographic...
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From:OR/MS Today (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGiven that no one knows what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH 370), it could well seem presumptuous to discuss the meaning of the disaster. But certain points about the crash and its aftermath can safely be...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 108, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAt American Airlines, the Transport Workers agreed to a 45-month contract that provides for lump-sum payments in lieu of wage increases. The accord, covering 12,000 mechanics and other ground workers, calls for payments...
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From:Operations Research (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMany of the existing methods for evaluating an airline's on-time performance are based on flight-centric measures of delay. However, recent research has demonstrated that passenger delays depend on many factors in...
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From:Management Science (Vol. 63, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn 2008, the majority of U.S. airlines began charging for the second checked bag, and then for the first checked bag. One of the often cited reasons for this action by the airlines' executives was that this would...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 108, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedA 3-month strike against Alaska Airlines ended when members of the Machinists union approved a contract proposal that included a two-tier pay system and productivity improvements, including more flexible work rules and...
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From:Journal of Business Strategies (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT In this paper two approaches are applied to understand the hedging behavior of companies which compete in the American airline industry (2007-2014) as they seek to cope with the uncertain, future costs of...
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From:Review of Optometry (Vol. 150, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedUveitis is a broad topic that encompasses not only ocular sequelae, but a large spectrum of associated systemic diseases. Management of these patients can prove to be challenging in controlling inflammation, preventing...