Short description
Examining the supply side of air-transport services, this volume focuses on issues related to productivity, input prices, exchange-rate dynamics, global sourcing of airline labour, maintenance and other services, and unit-cost competitiveness of the airlines. It also looks at underlying trends.
Long description
Examining the supply side of air-transport services, where airline management has considerable control, this volume focuses on fundamental issues related to productivity, input prices, exchange-rate dynamics, global sourcing of airline labour, maintenance and other services, and unit-cost competitiveness of the airlines. It also looks at underlying trends in the airline industry and provides systematic analysis of airline productivity and cost competitiveness.;The book has four major aims: to provide a review of trends in international air transport's regulatory and business environments; to provide practical insights into the key issues determining airline cost and productivity performance; to improve existing methodologies for comparing the productivity and cost competitiveness of various airlines; and to identify aspects of airline strategy, planning and operations where airline management and public-policy-makers should focus their efforts to enhance competitiveness in the globalizing airline markets.