Low-Cost Carriers in Emerging Countries

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-12-811393-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Low-Cost Airline Carriers in Emerging Countries traces the development of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, examining airlines that have become significant players in their home markets but little known at a global scale. The book maps the geography of the LCC phenomenon, explaining the starkly varying success of budget airlines, and assessing their current social, economic and environmental impacts. The book concludes with insights into the future potential of the LCC phenomenon along with its global ramifications.

Beginning with Southwest Airlines in the 1970s, low-cost carriers (LCCs) have democratized air travel around the world, fostering huge increases in airline traffic and transforming the airline industry. At the same time however, the ascent of these budget airlines has exacerbated aviation-related problems such as aircraft noise, airport congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and more. LCCs have been extensively studied in the US and Europe but not in emerging regions of the globe. Yet the impact of such airlines is greatest in low- and middle-income economies where only a small fraction of the population has ever flown, and where competition from alternative modes (road, rail) is weak.

Zielgruppe

<p>Airline industry researchers in transportation, tourism, geography, and economics, Upper-level undergraduate and graduate aviation management students, Airline and airports practitioners, Emerging countries' governmental officials</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Luftfahrtindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Ascent of LCCs Around the World2. Getting Airborne: What's Fuelling the LCC Phenomenon3. Networks: The Geography of LCCs in Low- and Middle-Income Economies4. Impacts of an Aeromobile World5. Business Models6. Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Bowen, John
John T. Bowen, Jr. has spent the past twenty years researching the airline industry. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at Central Washington University, the author of The Economic Geography of Air Transportation: Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky (Routledge, 2010), and numerous aviation articles published in Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of Transport Geography, and Journal of Economic Geography. Previous to joining academia, he worked for Singapore Airlines.