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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910958935803321"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Airline industry : strategies, operations and safety / / Connor R. Walsh, editor"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-61122-423-3"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (254 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Transportation infrastructure :roads, highways, bridges, airports and mass transit"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"387.7068/4"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Airlines"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Aeronautics, Commercial"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- AIRLINE INDUSTRY   STRATEGIES, OPERATIONS AND SAFETY -- AIRLINE INDUSTRY   STRATEGIES, OPERATIONS AND SAFETY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1  A FINANCIAL HISTORY AND ANALYSIS  OF THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BRIEF FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY -- A. The Paradox of the Airline Industry -- B. The Pre-Regulation Period (1914-1938) -- C. The Period of Regulation (1938-1978) -- Regulation of entry into a market -- Regulation of exiting from a market -- The regulation of services -- The regulation of prices -- The beginning of deregulation -- D. The Post-Regulation Period (1978-2001) -- E. The Post-Terrorist Period (2001 - Present) -- III. EARNINGS BEHAVIOR AND DIVIDENDS  IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY -- A. Earnings Behavior in the Airline Industry -- Prior literature -- Descriptive statistics -- Data and methodology -- Results -- Summary and implications -- B. Dividends in the Airline Industry -- Prior literature -- Methodology -- Results -- Summary and implications -- IV. THE RISKS OF AIRLINE OWNERSHIP -- Prior Literature -- Regulatory effects -- Inflationary and airline safety effects -- Data and Methodology -- Difference of means regressions -- Market risk -- Results -- Summary and Implications -- V. FINANCING DECISIONS IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY -- A. Leverage, Economic Regulation and Shareholder Wealth -- Prior literature -- Data and methodology -- Results -- Summary and implications -- B. Does the Use of Operating Leases Create Value? -- Data and methodology -- Results -- A note on the tax consequences of debt versus operating leases -- VI. SUMMARY, "]
[{"$nulls":4},"IMPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2  AIRLINE OPERATIONS CONTROL: A NEW  CONCEPT FOR OPERATIONS RECOVERY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SUMMARY OF RELATED WORK -- 2.1. Operations Recovery."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2.2. Other Application Domains -- 3. AIRLINE OPERATIONS CONTROL -- 3.1. Airline Scheduling Problem -- 3.2. AOCC Organization -- 3.3. Typical Problems -- 3.4. Current Disruption Management Process -- 3.5. Main Costs Involved -- 3.6. Current Tools and Systems -- 4. A NEW CONCEPT FOR OPERATIONS RECOVERY -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Why an Agent and Multi-Agent System Paradigm? -- 4.3. MAS Architecture -- 4.4. Decision Mechanisms -- 4.4.1. Manager agents level negotiation -- 4.4.2. Team level negotiation -- 4.5. Quality Operational Costs -- 4.5.1. Quantifying Quality Costs -- 4.5.2. Airline example -- 4.6. Problem Solving Algorithms -- 5. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP -- 6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3  OUTSOURCING STRATEGIES OF FULL-SERVICE AIRLINES: AN APPLICATION OF TWO  THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INDUSTRY CONTEXT -- THE THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF OUTSOURCING -- THE INVESTIGATION -- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION -- MAJOR ORGANISATIONAL FUNCTIONS  OF INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES -- 1. Plane Acquisition and Ownership -- 2. Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance -- 3. Customer Sales and Ticketing -- 4. In-Flight Catering -- 5. Corporate Identity and Brand Management -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4  THE PRICING STRATEGY OF RYANAIR -- ABSTRACT -- 1. RYANAIR'S BUSINESS MODEL -- 1.1. Deregulation and LCC Spread -- 1.2. Ryanair History -- Historic facts -- Ryanair economic performance -- 1.3. Success Factors -- Market opportunity recognized -- Strategy -- 1.4. Network Structure -- 2. THE PRICING STRATEGY OF RYANAIR -- 2.1. Methodological Aspects -- 2.2. Empirical Findings -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5  MEASURING AND BENCHMARKING AIRPORT EFFICIENCY: AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA) AND  STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS (SFA) -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2. BACKGROUND -- 3. MODEL VARIABLES -- 4. THE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODEL -- 4.1. The Characteristics of the DEA Model -- 4.2. An Illustration of a DEA Model -- 5. THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS MODEL -- 5.1. The Characteristics of the SFA Model -- 5.2. An Illustration of an SFA Model -- 2.1. The Model -- 2.2. Interpretation of the Model Outputs -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8. APPENDIX -- Chapter 6  EVIDENCE-BASED PROCESS (EBP)  CONSIDERATIONS OF HYPOXIA DURING  FLIGHT FOR FLIGHT NURSES: THE AEROHEMODYNAMICS THEORY REVISITED -- ABSTRACT -- AEROHEMODYNAMICS THEORY -- Definition -- Applicability to Broad Scope of Practice -- CONCEPTS -- Acceleration Forces -- Nursing Challenges- Acceleration Stress -- Barotrauma -- Nursing Challenges -- Thermostability -- Nursing Challenges -- Gaseous Toxicities, Diffusion and Vacuolization -- Nursing Challenges -- Radiation Exposure -- Nursing Challenges -- Psychosocial Considerations -- Nursing Challenges -- Aerohemodynamics Theory Effect Equation -- Acceleration Force Changes -- Motion Sickness Susceptibility -- Barotrauma -- Thermostability -- Gaseous Toxicities -- Radiation and Other Safety Hazards -- NURSING IMPLICATIONS -- NURSING RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7  CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY  REPORTING OF ASIAN AIRLINES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 3. METHOD -- 4. RESULTS -- 4.1. CSR Reporting Formats -- 4.2. CSR "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Organization -- 4.3. The Marketplace -- 4.4. Workplace -- 4.5. Community -- 4.6. Environment -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8  SERVICE QUALITY AND INTERNAL  DIFFERENCES AMONG MEMBERS  OF THE AIRLINE ALLIANCES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HYPOTHESES -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter9DAYS ONANDDAYS OFFSCHEDULINGOFPILOTSUNDERAVARIABLEWORKLOAD -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2.BasicCharacteristicsoftheAirlineCrewRosteringProblem -- 3.Bridgingthegapbetweenscheduleconsistencyandflexibility -- 3.1.PureCyclicalScheduling -- Purecyclicalschedulingintheassumptionofanequaldemand -- Purecyclicalschedulingunderavariableworkload -- Purecyclicalschedulingcombiningmultipleworkpatterns -- 3.2.AdhocSchedulingCombiningMultipleFixedWorkPatterns -- 3.3.Subdividingtheworkforceintodifferentgroupsforcrewrostering -- 3.4.Extensionwithan'adhoc'RosteringComponent -- 4.ConclusionsandFutureResearch -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter10PRICINGANDTRAVELERS'DECISIONTOUSEFREQUENTFLYERMILES:EVIDENCEFROMTHEU.S.AIRLINEINDUSTRY -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.FrequentFlyerPrograms -- 3.EmpiricalApproach -- 3.1.SourcesofDataandSample -- 3.2.ModelSetup -- 3.3.EstimatedEquationandPanelStructure -- 3.4.Instruments -- 4.EmpiricalResults -- 4.1.SummaryStatistics -- 4.2.TrendandRouteSpecificCharacteristics -- 4.3.ThePriceEffect -- 4.4.AirportDominance -- 4.5.ProductQualityandCapacityConstraints -- 5.ASimpleModelofthePriceEffect -- 6.Conclusion -- AVariableConstruction -- BFirstStageRegressions -- References -- INDEX."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This book presents a comprehensive review of the strategies, operations and safety of the airline industry. Topics discussed herein include a financial history and analysis of the U.S. airline industry, outsourcing strategies of full-service airlines, measuring and benchmarking airport efficiency, service quality and internal differences among members of the airline alliances, measures used to schedule airline crew under a variable workload using fixed days on and days off patterns, and frequent flyer mile usage among passengers."]