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| List of Contributors | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Introduction and Overview | |
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| Peter P. Belobaba and Amedeo Odoni | |
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| Introduction: The Global Airline Industry | |
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| Overview of Chapters | |
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| References | |
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| The International Institutional and Regulatory Environment | |
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| Amedeo Odoni | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background on the International Regulatory Environment | |
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| Airline Privatization and International Economic Regulation | |
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| Airports | |
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| Air Traffic Management | |
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| Key Organizations and Their Roles | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Overview of Airline Economics, Markets and Demand | |
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| Peter P. Belobaba | |
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| Airline Terminology and Definitions | |
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| Air Transportation Markets | |
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| Origin�Destination Market Demand | |
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| Air Travel Demand Models | |
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| Airline Competition and Market Share | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Fundamentals of Pricing and Revenue Management | |
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| Peter P. Belobaba | |
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| Airline Prices and O-D Markets | |
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| Airline Differential Pricing | |
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| Airline Revenue Management | |
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| References | |
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| Airline Operating Costs and Measures of Productivity | |
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| Peter P. Belobaba | |
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| Airline Cost Categorization | |
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| Operating Expense Comparisons | |
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| Comparisons of Airline Unit Costs | |
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| Measures of Airline Productivity | |
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| References | |
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| The Airline Planning Process | |
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| Peter P. Belobaba | |
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| Fleet Planning | |
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| Route Planning | |
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| Airline Schedule Development | |
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| The Future: Integrated Airline Planning | |
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| References | |
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| Airline Schedule Optimization | |
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| Cynthia Barnhart | |
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| Schedule Optimization Problems | |
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| Fleet Assignment | |
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| Schedule Design Optimization | |
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| Crew Scheduling | |
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| Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Crew Pairing Optimization | |
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| Future Directions for Schedule Optimization | |
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| References | |
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| Airline Flight Operations | |
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| Alan H. Midkiff, R. John Hansman and Tom G. Reynolds | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Regulation and Scheduling | |
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| Flight Crew Activities During a Typical Flight | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendix: List of Acronyms | |
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| References | |
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| Irregular Operations: Schedule Recovery and Robustness | |
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| Cynthia Barnhart | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Irregular Operations | |
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| Robust Airline Scheduling | |
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| Directions for Ongoing and Future Work on Schedule Recovery from Irregular Operations | |
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| References | |
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| Labor Relations and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry | |
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| Jody Hoffer Gittell, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Thomas A. Kochan, Robert McKersie and Greg J. Bamber | |
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| Alternative Strategies for the Employment Relationship | |
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| Labor Relations in the US Airline Industry | |
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| Labor Relations in the Airline Industry in Other Countries | |
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| Human Resource Management at Airlines | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Aviation Safety and Security | |
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| Arnold Barnett | |
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| Safety | |
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| Security | |
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| References | |
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| Airports | |
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| Amedeo Odoni | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General Background | |
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| Physical Characteristics | |
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| Capacity, Delays and Demand Management | |
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| Institutional, Organizational and Economic Characteristics | |
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| References | |
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| Air Traffic Control | |
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| John Hansman and Amedeo Odoni | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Generic Elements of an ATC System | |
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| Airspace and ATC Structure | |
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| ATC Operations | |
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| Standard Procedures | |
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| Capacity Constraints | |
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| Congestion and Air Traffic Management | |
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| Future ATC Systems | |
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| References | |
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| Air Transport and the Environment | |
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| Karen Marais and Ian A. Waitz | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Limiting Aviation�s Environmental Impact: The Role of Regulatory Bodies | |
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| Airport Water Quality Control | |
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| Noise | |
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| Surface Air Quality | |
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| Impact of Aviation on Climate | |
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| Summary and Looking Forward | |
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| References | |
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| Information Technology in Airline Operations, Distribution | |
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| and Passenger Processing | |
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| Peter Belobaba, William Swelbar and Cynthia Barnhart | |
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| Information Technology in Airline Planning and Operations | |
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| Airline Distribution Systems | |
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| Distribution Costs and E-commerce Developments | |
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| Innovations in Passenger Processing | |
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| References | |
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| Critical Issues and Prospects for the Global Airline Industry | |
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| William Swelbar and Peter Belobaba | |
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| Evolution of US and Global Airline Markets | |
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| Looking Ahead: Critical Challenges for the Global Airline Industry | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |