Highlights ► Investigate the impact of multimarket contact in the international air travel market. ► The impact of multimarket contact depends on ex-ante market and alliance conditions. ► Multimarket contact between non-aligned airlines leads to higher airfares. ► Multimarket contact on open-skies routes leads to higher airfares.
Abstract This paper tests the mutual forbearance view in the context of airline alliances in the international air travel market. Using passenger booking and airfare data on transpacific routes, we find consistent evidence for the positive association between multimarket contact and airfares. Our results also suggest that multimarket contact between non-aligned airlines is associated with higher airfares, whereas multimarket contact between airlines in the same alliance has no additional upward impact on airfares. Moreover, it is shown that higher airfares tend to exist when airlines have greater multimarket contact on open-skies routes. In restrictive (non-liberal) international markets, however, multimarket contact may not affect airfare.
Multimarket contact, alliance membership, and prices in international airline markets
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review ; 48 , 2 ; 555-565
2011-08-24
11 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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