Aviation Performance and Productivity

Lucy Budd is Professor of Air Transport Management and Stephen Ison is Professor of Air Transport Policy at De Montfort University, UK.

• Volume 4 Aviation Performance and ProductivityIntroductionPart I Privatisation and Commercialisation D. Gillen, ‘The Evolution of Airport Ownership and Governance’, Journal of Air Transport Management, 17, 2011, 3-13. A. Zhang and Y. Zhang, ‘Concession Revenue and Optimal Airport Pricing’, Transportation Research Part E, 33, 4, 1997, 287-296. A. Zhang and Y. Zhang, ‘Airport Charges and Capacity Expansion: Effects of Concessions and Privatization’, Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 2003, 54-75. T. H. Oum, N. Adler and C. Yu, ‘Privatization, Corporatization, Ownership Forms and Their Effects on the Performance of the World’s Major Airports’, Journal of Air Transport Management, 12, 2006, 109-121. I. Humphreys, S. Ison and G. Francis, ‘UK Airport Policy: Does the Government Have Any Influence?’, Public Money and Management, 27, 5, 2010, 339-344. R. Freestone, P. Williams and A. Bowden, ‘Fly Buy Cities: Some Planning Aspects of Airport Privatisation in Australia’, Urban Policy and Research, 24, 4, 2006, 491-508.Part II Efficiency T. H. Oum, J. Yan and C. Yu, ‘Ownership Forms Matter for Airport Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Investigation of Worldwide Airports’, Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 2008, 422-435. D. Gillen and A. Lall, ‘Developing Measures of Airport Productivity and Performance: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis’, Transportation Research Part E, 33, 4, 1997, 261-273. J. Sarkis, ‘An Analysis of the Operational Efficiency of Major Airports in the United States’, Journal of Operations Management, 18, 2000, 335-351. D. Gillen and W. G. Morrison, ‘The Economics of Franchise Contracts and Airport Policy’, Journal of Air Transport Management, 11, 2005, 43-48. E. Pels, P. Nijkamp and P. Rietveld, ‘Inefficiencies and Scale Economies of European Airport Operations’, Transportation Research Part E, 39, 2003, 341-361. C. Barbot, A. Costa and E. Sochirca, ‘Airlines Performance in the New Market Context: A Comparative Productivity and Efficiency Analysis’, Journal of Air Transport Management, 14, 2008, 270-274. R. Merkert and D. A. Hensher, ‘The Impact of Strategic Management and Fleet Planning on Airline Efficiency – A Random Effects Tobit Model Based on DEA Efficiency Scores’, Transportation Research Part A, 45, 2011, 686-695. D. R. Graham, D. P. Kalpan and D. S. Sibley, ‘Efficiency and Competition in the Airline Industry’, The Bell Journal of Economics, 14, 1, 1983, 118-138. V. Inglada, B. Rey, A. Rodríguez-Alvarez and P. Coto-Millan, ‘Liberalisation and Efficiency in International Air Transport’, Transportation Research Part A, 40, 2006, 95-105. B. K. Behn and R. A. Riley, ‘Using Nonfinancial Information to Predict Financial Performance: The Case of the U.S. Airline Industry’, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 14 , 1, 1999, 29-56. M. M. Parast and E. H. Fini, ‘The Effect of Productivity and Quality on Profitability in US Airline Industry: An Empirical Investigation’, Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, 20, 5, 2010, 458-474.Part III Service delivery and service quality F. Sultan and M. C. Simpson, Jr, ‘International Service Variants: Airline Passenger Expectations and Perceptions of Service Quality’, Journal of Services Marketing, 14, 3, 2000, 188-216. S.-H. Tsaur, T.-Y. Chang and C.-H. Yen, ‘The Evaluation of Airline Service Quality by Fuzzy MCDM’, Tourism Management, 23, 2002, 107-115. M. J. Mazzeo, ‘Competition and Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry’, Review of Industrial Organization, 22, 2003, 275-296. A. R. Correia, S. C. Wirasinghe and A. G. de Barros, ‘Overall Level of Service Measures for Airport Passenger Terminals’, Transportation Research Part A, 42, 2008, 330-346. N. Adler and J. Berechman, ‘Measuring Airport Quality from the Airlines’ Viewpoint: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis’, Transport Policy, 8, 2001, 171-181.Part IV: Human Resource and Labour F. E. Alamdari and P. Morrell, ‘Airline Labour Cost Reduction: Post-liberalisation Experience in the USA and Europe’, Journal of Air Transport Management, 3, 2, 1997, 53-66. L. Hunter, ‘Low Cost Airlines: Business Model and Employment Relations’, European Management Journal, 24, 5, 2006, 315-321. G. Harvey and P. Turnbull, ‘Employment Relations, Management Style and Flight Crew Attitudes at Low Cost Airline Subsidiaries: The Cases of British Airways/Go and bmi/bmibaby’, European Management Journal, 24, 5, 2006, 330-337. S. Taylor and M. Tyler, ‘Emotional Labour and Sexual Difference in the Airline Industry’, Work, Employment & Society, 14, 1, 2000, 77-95.