TY - JOUR
T1 - Internalization of congestion at US hub airports
AU - Ater, Itai
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is a revised version of a chapter in my Ph.D. dissertation. I received valuable comments from Ran Abramitzky, Amitay Alter, Assaf Ater, Tim Bresnahan, Jan Brueckner, Assaf Eilat, Liran Einav, Shachar Frank, Mark Hansen, Oren Rigbi, Peter Reiss and Frank Wolak as well as from participants at seminars at Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, 2007 ATRS meeting, Berkeley-Nextor seminar, the 2007 Aspen Wye Conference on Congestion in the airline industry and the NBER Universities Research Conference on the airline industry and the 2010 IIOC conference. I thank the NET Institute and the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (Grant No. 363/11) for financial support. All remaining errors are mine.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - I study delays and congestion patterns in US hub airports during periods of high flight volume. I find that these periods are longer when the share of flights operated by the hub airline is greater, and these longer periods exhibit shorter delays. These results lend support to recent theoretical work on congestion, implying that hub-airlines take into account the impact of their scheduling decisions on the congestion that they bear. The results may suggest that congestion management solutions implemented at hub airports dominated by one airline could have only a limited impact on congestion in general.
AB - I study delays and congestion patterns in US hub airports during periods of high flight volume. I find that these periods are longer when the share of flights operated by the hub airline is greater, and these longer periods exhibit shorter delays. These results lend support to recent theoretical work on congestion, implying that hub-airlines take into account the impact of their scheduling decisions on the congestion that they bear. The results may suggest that congestion management solutions implemented at hub airports dominated by one airline could have only a limited impact on congestion in general.
KW - Air delays
KW - Air transportation
KW - Congestion
KW - Market concentration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862516934&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jue.2012.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jue.2012.05.004
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AN - SCOPUS:84862516934
SN - 0094-1190
VL - 72
SP - 196
EP - 209
JO - Journal of Urban Economics
JF - Journal of Urban Economics
IS - 2-3
ER -
