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Airline industry : strategies, operations and safety /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Transportation infrastructure : roads, highways, bridges, airports and mass transit series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY STRATEGIES, OPERATIONS AND SAFETY; AIRLINE INDUSTRY STRATEGIES, OPERATIONS AND SAFETY ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; 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, IMPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS ; REFERENCES ; AIRLINE OPERATIONS CONTROL: A NEW CONCEPT FOR OPERATIONS RECOVERY; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. SUMMARY OF RELATED WORK ; 2.1. Operations Recovery.
- 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 ; 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.