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12 This chapter provides a brief overview of the key historical changes in the aviation industry, with a focus on the evolution of the airline business in the United States since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The goal is to present high-level information regarding the airlines' customary planning objectives and strategic considerations involved in the management of aircraft fleets and the development of new routes at a network level.
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Literature Review 13 The four most notable deals of airline mergers from the past 8 years are as follows (see also Figure 2) : • Delta Air Lines' acquisition of Northwest Airlines closed in December 2009.
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14 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging "carefully control their capacity growth and instead focus more intently on increasing profitability." According to the same study, "system passenger yields at NLCs (network legacy carriers) increased from 12.90 cents per mile in 2010 to 14.59 cents per mile in 2015 -- a 13.2% increase" (Bachwich 2017)
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Literature Review 15 efficient means for connecting passengers between two different locations. Passengers often do not care for connecting over hubs, but hubs do allow airlines to aggregate traffic in ways that make serving many smaller communities possible.
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16 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging ACRP Report 98: Understanding Airline and Passenger Choice in Multi-Airport Regions (Parrella 2013) provides additional details and explanations on airlines' evaluation of the underlying size and nature of air travel demand.
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Literature Review 17 for U.S. passenger and cargo airlines.
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18 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging require its commuter partners to dispose of 281 50-seat regional jets, cap the 70-seat regional jet fleet at 102, and increase by 70 the size of the 76-seat two-class regional jet fleet to 325. To meet airlines' expectations on aircraft fuel efficiency, manufacturers have been striving to innovate engine performance and airplane aerodynamics.
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Literature Review 19 Note: CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States. Figure 6.
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20 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging Figure 8 shows a comparison of U.S. domestic airlines' fleet age by aircraft type and size.
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Note: AA = American Airlines. Figure 8.
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22 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging Impacts of Airline Consolidation and Upgauging on Airports After noting the effects of airline consolidation and aircraft upgauging on airports, recent studies show that airline business model changes have affected aviation communities and stakeholders in different ways. In particular, Bachwich (2017)
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Literature Review 23 Note: NLC = network legacy carrier; LCC = low-cost carrier; ULCC = ultra-low-cost carrier. Figure 10.
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24 How Airports Plan for Changing Aircraft Capacity: The Effects of Upgauging for the smaller communities. While the LCCs and ULCCs mostly provide point-to-point connections, gradual reductions of NLC air service at smaller airports directly limit the number of destinations accessible for these communities.
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