Air line strategies for aircraft size and air line frequency with changing demand and competition: a simultaneous equations approach for traffic on the North Atlantic.

• Main Authors: David Pitfield, Robert E. Caves, Mohammed Quddus
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified; untagged; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Air_line_strategies_for_aircraft_size_and_air_line_frequency_with_changing_demand_and_competition_a_simultaneous_equations_approach_for_traffic_on_the_North_Atlantic_/9448655

Airport planners need to know the forecast demand on the facilities provided airside at airports. For this they need to know how airlines will deal with traffic in terms of the size of aircraft and frequency of service. In response to increasing demand, airlines may increase capacity by increasing the frequency of flights or they may choose to increase aircraft size. This may yield operating cost economies. If the airports they operate from are capacity constrained they will be limited in the extent that they can change frequency which will limit their ability to compete with the number of frequencies offered. Consequently, these airports are excluded as are major hubs as frequencies will be influenced by connecting passengers. Routes are identified on the north Atlantic that can be analysed and conclusions are suggested on the basis of three stage least squares estimates for pooled time series-cross section data. An increase in passengers on the whole will result in a larger increase in frequency than in aircraft size but the impact of competition does not yield significant results due to the strategy of excluding certain categories of airport.