Low cost carriers: emergence, expansion and evolution / Lucy Budd [book]

Introduction. Part I Deregulation and Liberalization: The evolution of US airline competition, Severin Borenstein; Governing the skies: conditions for the Europeanisation of airline policy, Thomas C. Lawton; Low-cost carriers in Asia: deregulation, regional liberalization and secondary airports, Anming Zhang, Shinya Hanaoka, Hajime Inamura and Tomoki Ishikura. Part II Business Models and Operating Characteristics: Impact of the adherence to the original low-cost model on the profitability of low-cost airlines, Fariba Alamdari and Simon Fagan; An empirical model of low-cost carrier entry, Alessandro V.M. Oliveira; Where next for low cost airlines? A spatial and temporal comparative study, Graham Francis, Ian Humphreys, Stephen Ison and Michelle Aicken. Part III The Airline-Airport Relationship: Low-cost airlines and airport competition, Eric Pels, Nenad Njegovan and Christiaan Behrens; How do the demands for airport services differ between full-service carriers and low-cost carriers?, Sean D. Barrett; Competitive advantage of low-cost carriers: some implications for airports, David Gillen and Ashish Lall; Airports<U+2019> perspectives on the growth of low-cost airlines and the remodeling of the airport-airline relationship, Graham Francis, Ian Humphreys and Stephen Ison; Low-cost airports for low-cost airlines: flexible design to manage the risks, Richard de Neufville. Part IV Network Characteristics: The geography of deregulation in the US airline industry, Andrew R. Goetz and Christopher J. Sutton; An analysis of European low-cost airlines and their networks, Frédéric Dobruszkes; The impact of low-cost carriers on airport and route competition, Martin Dresner, Jiun-Sheng Chris Lin and Robert Windle. Part V Pricing and Competition: Low-cost airlines and online price dispersion, Enrico Bachis and Claudio A. Piga; Bundling, integration and the delivered price of air travel: are low cost carriers full service competitors?, David Gillen and William Morrison; The propensity of business travellers to use low cost airlines, Keith J. Mason; Price discrimination strategies of low-cost carriers, Carlos F. Alves and Cristina Barbot; Competitive responses to low cost carrier entry, Robert Windle and Martin Dresner. Part VI Impacts and Implications for the Future: End of the free lunch? The responses of traditional European airlines to the low-cost carrier threat, Nigel Dennis; Carriers within carriers: a strategic response to low-cost airline competition, Brian Graham and Timothy M. Vowles; The transferability of the low-cost model to long-haul airline operations, Graham Francis, Nigel Dennis, Stephen Ison and Ian Humphreys; The growth limits of the low cost carrier model, Jaap G. de Wit and Joost Zuidberg. Name index.