The econometrics of airline network management

Joachim Grammig (), Reinhard Hujer and Michael Scheidler

No 2001055, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The task of airline network management is to develop new flight schedule variants and evaluate thm in terms of expected passenger demand and revenue. Given the industry's trend towards global cooperation, this is especially important when evaluating the potential synergies with alliance partners. From the econometric point of view, this task represents a discrete choice modeling problem in which the analyst has to account for a large number of dependent alternatives. In this paper we discuss the applicability of recently proposed approaches and introduce a new multinomial probit specificationdesigned for the airline network management task. The superior performance of the new model is demonstrated both in a simulation study and in a real-world application using airline bookings data.

Keywords: airline industry; transportation; discrete choice models; multinomial probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 C25 L93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-12
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