What States Can Do to Address Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills

Out-of-network air ambulance bills are a pernicious and financially devastating type of surprise medical bill. Courts have broadly interpreted the Airline Deregulation Act to preempt most state attempts to regulate air ambulance billing abuses, so a federal solution is ultimately needed. However, in the absence of a federal fix, states have experimented with a variety of approaches that may survive preemption and provide some protections for their citizens

FREQUENT FLIER PROGRAMS OF LOW COST AIRLINES THE WORLD AND TURKEY

ABSTRACT Airlines often use Frequent Flyer Programs (FFPs) as one of marketing tools. Traditional airlines had started to use FFPs after airline deregulation against low cost carriers in order to get competitive advantage. The main purposes of the FFPs are to provide extra services to passenger who fly very often and maintain the loyalty of passengers creating the main income for the airlines. FFPs helps traditional airlines a lot to get advantages in competition to the low-cost carriers (LCCs). Although traditional airlines started to use FFPs at first, with the on-going update of system, even if it is against the nature of LCCs, FFPs has begun to be used for LCCs as well for last two decades. In this study, try to examine the LCCs use FFPs effectively and the differences between the FFPs used from the LCCs in the World and Turkey. In this context, the best LCCs in 2017 selected by Skytrax and Turkish LCCs FFPs examined as a case study. Search results indicate that only one LCC don’t have FFP and The World and Turkish LCCs has similar FFPs. Keywords: Frequent flyer programs, low cost carriers, tourism, airline

DÜŞÜK MALİYETLİ HAVAYOLU İŞLETMELERİNİN SIK UÇAN YOLCU PROGRAMLARI: DÜNYA VE TÜRKİYE

Sık Uçan Yolcu Programları (SUYP), havayolu işletmeleri tarafından sıklıkla kullanılan pazarlama araçlarından birisidir. Havayolu taşımacılığında liberalleşme sonrasında pazarda faaliyet gösteren mevcut geleneksel havayolu işletmeleri tarafından, düşük maliyetli havayolu işletmelerine (DMHİ) karşı bir rekabet avantajı sağlaması amacı ile kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. SUYP’nin amacı, havayolu işletmelerinin gelirlerinin önemli bir kısmını oluşturan sık uçan yolculara birtakım avantajlar sağlayarak havayolunun sürekli müşterisi haline getirmeye çalışmaktır. SUYP geleneksel havayolu işletmelerine, DMHİ’ne karşı rekabette avantaj sağlamıştır. Başlangıçta geleneksel havayolu işletmeleri tarafından kullanılan, zaman içinde sürekli yenilenen SUYP, her ne kadar DMHİ felsefesine karşı olsa da, son yirmi yıldır DMHİ tarafından da kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Bu çalışma, DMHİ’nin SUYP’nı etkin olarak kullanıp kullanmadıkları ve Türkiye ve Dünyadaki DMHİ’nin SUYP arasında fark olup olmadığının ortaya konulması amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu bağlamda, Skytrax tarafından 2017 yılında dünyanın en iyi 20 DMHİ seçilen havayolu işletmelerinin SUYP olup olmadığı ve Türkiye’deki DMHİ’nin SUYP ayrıntılı bir şekilde örnek olay (durum çalışması) olarak incelenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda, 2017 yılında Skytrax tarafından Dünya’nın en iyi 20 DMHİ olarak seçilen havayolu işletmelerinden sadece 1 tanesinin SUYP olmadığı ve Türkiye’de faaliyette bulunan DMHİ’lerinin 2017 yılında dünyadaki en iyi 20 DMHİ seçilenler ile benzer uygulamalarda bulundukları, dünyadaki gelişmelere paralel uygulamalarda bulundukları ortaya konulmuştur. Airlines often use Frequent Flyer Programs (FFPs) as one of marketing tools. Traditional airlines had started to use FFPs after airline deregulation against low cost carriers in order to get competitive advantage. The main purposes of the FFPs are to provide extra services to passenger who fly very often and maintain the loyalty of passengers creating the main income for the airlines. FFPs helps traditional airlines a lot to get advantages in competition to the low-cost carriers (LCCs). Although traditional airlines started to use FFPs at first, with the on-going update of system, even if it is against the nature of LCCs, FFPs has begun to be used for LCCs as well for last two decades. In this study, try to examine the LCCs use FFPs effectively and the differences between the FFPs used from the LCCs in the World and Turkey. In this context, the best LCCs in 2017 selected by Skytrax and Turkish LCCs FFPs examined as a case study. Search results indicate that only one LCC don’t have FFP and The World and Turkish LCCs has similar FFPs.

The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left

This article examines the politics of airline deregulation in the 1970s, and the events that led to the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. It links the antibureaucratic, antiregulatory policies of the 1970s to ideas closely connected to the New Left, the counterculture, and other left-wing subcultures that dominated high and low thought in the 1960s. By linking this source of antibureaucratic sentiment to the politics of airline deregulation, this article suggests a new direction for historians who study the American state in the last decades of the twentieth century. As they focus their attention on the rise of market-based, neoliberal regulatory policies, they should look for their origins not only in the growing strength of the intellectual and political right, but also in the political thought and practice of the 1960s left.

Comment on Reuel Schiller: The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left

Air travel is unpleasant for many reasons, particularly in the post-9/11 age. Yet, blame for the cramped accommodations, bag fees, and lack of direct flights has to be assigned in part to the deregulation of the airline industry in the late 1970s. Airline deregulation and its consequences symbolize the ways in which neoliberal ideas and practices have come to shape economic policies as well as the daily lives of ordinary Americans.