Highlights ► I examine hub carriers’ airlines-within-airlines (AinA) strategies on rim routes. ► Passengers differentiate one-stop and nonstop services horizontally and vertically. ► A mixed network under AinA can be preferable to a hub-spoke or point-to-point one. ► Low-cost rivals on rim routes weaken AinA adoption and enhance welfare. ► Hub carriers may have excessive incentive to adopt AinA in a perfect-substitute case.

    Abstract This paper investigates hub carriers’ airlines-within-airlines (AinA) strategies, intended to establish low-cost divisions offering nonstop flights on rim routes. An initial hub-spoke network is optimal if passenger differentiation between one-stop and nonstop services and via-hub time cost are small. If differentiation is substantial, a mixed one-stop and nonstop (point-to-point) network under AinA is optimal when via-hub time cost is small (large). Low-cost rivals on rim routes weaken AinA adoption and enhance welfare from a monopoly mixed network. In a perfect-substitute case, hub carriers may have excessive incentive to adopt AinA from a welfare viewpoint, especially, when low-cost rivals exist.


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    Titel :

    Airlines-within-airlines strategies and existence of low-cost carriers


    Beteiligte:
    Lin, Ming Hsin (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-11-15


    Format / Umfang :

    15 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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