An Engineer's Perspective on the Air Transportation Industry: The Last Forty Years

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Sutter ◽  
David C. Knowlen
Keyword(s):  
Air Transportation ◽  
Transportation Industry

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AIRPORT MANAGEMENT

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vildan Durmaz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Airport Management ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Airport Capacity

Air transportation industry is a globally growing industry. As an inseparable part of this industry, airport management is also becoming more crucial issue to be dealt with. Airports offer economic and social benefits to the society, but also environmental impacts of airport operations are increasing due to high traffic growth. While airport capacity is increasing, airport operators are being responsible for mitigating environmental constraints. Today to implement airport environmental management system is seen as a critical way of solution. To ensure effective implementation of this system, an organizational change with definite roles, responsibilities and structure are needed. This study illustrates a way of organizational response to market forces and national regulations guiding the achievement of sustainable airports by determining the structure and the roles in an airport organization.

Determinants of “Sticky Costs”: An Analysis of Cost Behavior using United States Air Transportation Industry Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 1645-1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
James N. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Cost Behavior ◽  
Idle Capacity

ABSTRACT This paper examines determinants of sticky cost behavior, costs that increase faster than they decrease as demand fluctuates. The majority of the literature infers that sticky costs arise because managers retain idle capacity as demand falls, but add capacity as demand grows. I use United States Air Transportation industry data to confirm that managers do retain idle capacity when demand falls. However, I also find that sticky costs arise because managers lower selling prices to utilize existing capacity when demand falls, but add capacity (rather than raise selling prices) when demand grows. Finally, I find that sticky costs arise because managers incur more cost when adding capacity as demand grows than they incur when they add capacity as demand falls. Conversely, I find evidence of anti-sticky costs that occur because managers save more cost by removing capacity when demand falls than they save by removing capacity when demand grows. Data Availability: Data are available from the author upon request.

scholarly journals Impact of different control policies for COVID-19 outbreak on the air transportation industry: A comparison between China, the U.S. and Singapore

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248361
Author(s):  
Fanyu Meng ◽  
Wenwu Gong ◽  
Jun Liang ◽  
Xian Li ◽  
Yiping Zeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Air Cargo ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Freight Traffic ◽  
The U.S

Many countries have been implementing various control measures with different strictness levels to prevent the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from spreading. With the great reduction in human mobility and daily activities, considerable impacts have been imposed on the global air transportation industry. This study applies a hybrid SARIMA-based intervention model to measure the differences in the impacts of different control measures implemented in China, the U.S. and Singapore on air passenger and air freight traffic. To explore the effect of time span for the measures to be in force, two scenarios are invented, namely a long-term intervention and a short-term intervention, and predictions are made till the end of 2020 for all three countries under both scenarios. As a result, predictive patterns of the selected metrics for the three countries are rather different. China is predicted to have the mildest economic impact on the air transportation industry in this year in terms of air passenger revenue and air cargo traffic, provided that the control measures were prompt and effective. The U.S. would suffer from a far-reaching impact on the industry if the same control measures are maintained. More uncertainties are found for Singapore, as it is strongly associated with international travel demands. Suggestions are made for the three countries and the rest of the world on how to seek a balance between the strictness of control measures and the potential long-term industrial losses.

scholarly journals Cancer Incidence Among Air Transportation Industry Workers Using the National Cohort Study of Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanhyung Lee ◽  
Mo-Yeol Kang ◽  
Jin-Ha Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Air Transportation ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Cancer Risks ◽  
Gender Stratification ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Employee Group ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
National Cohort ◽  
The Government

Background: There are increasing concerns regarding increased cancer risks in professional flight attendants due to their exposure to occupational hazards that are known or suspected to be carcinogenic. In this study, we aimed to analyze various cancer risks among a cohort of Korean air transportation industry workers. Methods: We used data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database from 2002 to 2015. The age-standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for all types of cancers in the aircraft transport industry workers compared to government employees and the entire employee population were calculated with adjustment for five-year age ranges via the indirect standardized method with gender stratification. Results: Leukemia (ICD-10; C91–C95) showed significantly higher SIRs (95% confidence interval (CI)) compared to the government employee group (1.86, 1.15–2.84) and the whole employee group (1.77, 1.10–2.70). Conclusion: Air transportation industry workers have an increased risk of leukemia compared to other occupational groups.

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