Böcker i Ashgate Studies in Aviation Economics and Management-serien

This text looks at the role of management operations and human resources within the Total Quality Management context in the airline industry. The book assesses external relations, internal relations and industrial relations, as well as looking at the management structure throughout.

Deregulation has radically altered the way in which airlines are operated and managed. This book aims to examine the response of carriers to liberalization in a number of representative air transport markets and to provide an explanation for the wide variation in levels of competition.

Strategic airline alliances are an important topic in airline management today, stimulated by poor access of international airlines to large domestic markets such as the USA and EU and the increasing importance of network scope.

This work examines the causes and failures of most new-entrant airlines, and the environment they operate in. Attention is given to the new entrant's strategy and management, in order to explore past deficiencies and pave the way for successful new strategies.

An overview of the low fare airline sector, its market and competitor context and the structures and strategies of its main protagonists. It details the effect on the European aircraft industry, the EU, and low price competition in other parts of the world.