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    The empirical analysis of the impact of alliances on airline operations.
    (Elsevier, 2005-05) Alamdari, Fariba; Iatrou, Kostas
    Airline alliances dominate the air transport industry with the largest carriers belonging to one of the four alliance groupings—Wings,1 Star Alliance, oneworld, SkyTeam—which represent 56% of world revenue passenger kilometers. Although much research has been carried out to evaluate the impact of alliance membership on performance of airlines, little has been done on the perceived impacts by participating airlines. This paper gathers opinions of all the airlines, belonging to the four global alliances in 2002 on the impact alliances have had on their traffic and on their performance in general. To achieve this, a comprehensive survey of the alliance management departments of airlines participating in the alliances was carried out. The survey examined which type of cooperation among carriers (frequent flyer programmes, code share, strategic alliance without antitrust immunity, strategic alliance with antitrust immunity) have produced the most positive impact on traffic and which types of route (short haul, long haul, hub–hub, hub–non-hub, non-hub–non-hub) have been affected the most. In addition, the respondent airlines quantified the effect alliances have had on specific areas of their operation, such as load factors, traffic, costs, revenue and fares. Their responses are analysed by alliance groupings, under airline and under geographic region to establish which group, type of carrier and geographic region has benefited the most. The results show that each of the four global alliances groupings has experienced different results according to the type of collaboration agreed amongst their member airlines.
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    EU network carriers, low cost carriers and consumer behaviour: A Delphi study of future trends
    (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2007-09-30T00:00:00Z) Mason, Keith J.; Alamdari, Fariba
    This paper uses a Delphi panel of 26 air transport experts to forecast the structure of air transport in the EU in 2015 in respect of network carriers, low cost airlines and passenger behaviour. Secondary research was used to construct a number of scenarios about the future structure and strategy of EU network and low cost airlines and also traveller behaviour. Consensus of opinions was sought amongst the panel in a two-round process. The consensus opinion of the Delphi experts was that; network carrier consolidation will reduce EU players to less than five, there will be only two or three large low cost carriers, Business Class products will disappear on short hauls. and leisure travellers will take an increasing number of multiple short-duration holidays.
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    Regional development in airlines and travel agents relationship.
    (Elsevier, 2002-09) Alamdari, Fariba
    On average, 17% of airline operating cost are attributed to distribution costs which are associated with commissions to travel agents, ticketing, credit card fees, CRS fees and promotion. In recent years, airlines in North America and in Europe have been questioning the role of travel agents in the distribution chain and renegotiating commission fee structures. As a result, some large agents have introduced a management fee philosophy where the clients, especially corporations, pay a fee to the travel agent in return for predetermined services. Such services include providing up-to-the minute reports on travel patterns of employees, effectiveness of travel policies, advice on complicated itineraries, etc. Such changes in airline and travel agent relationships initially started in the US and were followed by the European carriers. However, Asian carriers have been slow in following their US and European counterparts. This raises a number of questions: What are the barriers, if any for Asian carriers, to follow their counter parts in Europe and US? Would airlines in the three regions be able to bypass travel agents and sell directly to their customers? Would the customers prefer to go direct to airlines? Would there be a variation in the airlines, and agents, relationship in each region? This paper addresses these questions by analysing the distribution strategies of major carriers in the US, Europe and Asia. It also discusses the changing relationship between airlines and travel agents, and the trend towards direct selling by airlines in each region.