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Revenue and operational impacts of depeaking flights at hub airports

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dc.contributor.advisor Garrow, Laurie A.
dc.contributor.author Katz, Donald Samuel en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Higgins, Matthew
dc.contributor.committeeMember Laval, Jorge
dc.contributor.committeeMember Newman, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.committeeMember Rodgers, Michael
dc.contributor.department Civil and Environmental Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-01-17T22:06:48Z
dc.date.available 2013-01-17T22:06:48Z
dc.date.issued 2012-11-13 en_US
dc.description.abstract Post deregulation, many U.S. airlines created hubs with banked schedules, however, in the past decade these same airlines began to experiment with depeaking their schedules to reduce costs and improve operational performance. To date there has been little research that has investigated revenue and operational shifts associated with depeaked schedules; yet understanding the trade-offs among revenue, costs, and operational performance at a network level is critical before airlines will consider future depeaking and related congestion-management strategies. This study develops data cleaning and analysis methodologies based on publicly available data that are used to quantify airport-level and network-level revenue and operational changes associated with schedule depeaking. These methodologies are applied to six case studies of airline depeaking over the past decade. Results show that depeaking is associated with revenue per available seat mile (RASM) increasing slower than the rest of the network and the industry as a whole. Depeaking is associated with improved operations for both the depeaking airlines and competitors. Airports benefit from increases in non-aeronautical sales associated with connecting passengers spending more time in the terminal. The underlying reasons driving airlines' scheduling decisions during depeaking vary greatly by case. Results from the study provide insights for airlines that are considering depeaking and the airports which are affected. The results suggest that losses in RASM and no improvement in operations could potentially lead an airline to repeak, and that RASM is prone to fall when a strong competitive threat exists. en_US
dc.description.degree PhD en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45953
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Depeaking en_US
dc.subject Peaked schedule en_US
dc.subject Airport en_US
dc.subject Airline en_US
dc.subject Airline schedule en_US
dc.subject Operations en_US
dc.subject Banked schedule en_US
dc.subject Depeaked schedule en_US
dc.subject Continuous schedule en_US
dc.subject Hub airport en_US
dc.subject Revenue en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Airports
dc.subject.lcsh Cost effectiveness
dc.subject.lcsh Value analysis (Cost control)
dc.subject.lcsh Scheduling
dc.subject.lcsh Time management
dc.title Revenue and operational impacts of depeaking flights at hub airports en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Garrow, Laurie A.
local.contributor.corporatename School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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