Air Transport in the 21st Century

Contents: Preface; Part I Practitioners Pieces: Volatility in the global airline industry is shaping its future evolution, Alan Joyce; The future of air navigation, Ashley Smout; Aviation safety concern, Bill Voss; A beneficial industry but one with elusive profitability, Brian Pearce; The challenges faced by independent ground handlers and in-flight caterers, Clement Woon; Growth opportunities in Brazil, Constantino de Oliveira Jr; Can Gulf carriers sustain their current growth rate?, Fariba Alamdari; Forecasting the fate of the airline industry, Gary Kelly; Changing global air transport, James Hogan; The inevitable evolution of aviation, Kenneth Button; Longer-term prospects for air transport, Laurent Rouaud; Airline consolidation in China and the prospects for China Eastern, Liu Shaoyong; Overcoming the constraints of aeropolitics, Maurice Flanagan; In search of sustained profitability 30 years after deregulation, Peter P.Belobaba; IT, airlines and the recession: what is a Chief Information Officer to do?, Paul Coby; An inherently unstable industry: airlines have themselves to blame, Rigas Doganis; Engine makers can help airlines thrive, even in a difficult environment, Robert J. Keady; The future of airline sales distribution, Scott D. Nason; Dynamic air transport industry, Tewolde GebreMariam; The dilemma facing airport management: taking control of the airport environment, William deCota; Surviving the crisis, Willie Walsh. Part II Academic Section: Airlines: an inherently turbulent industry, John F. O'Connell; State of US aviation: clinging to the old ways in a new century, Dawna L. Rhoades; Ryanair and the low-cost revolution, Sean D. Barrett; Airline strategy: keeping the legacy carrier competitive. How can mature airlines stay ahead in the low-fare airline era?, Alan Gogbashian and Thomas Lawton; Ancillary revenues: the new trend in strategic airline marketing, John F. O'Connell; Multilateral airline alliances: the fallacy of the alliances to mergers proposition, Sveinn Vidar Gudmundson and Christian Lechner; Comparing the economic and operating characteristics of charter and low-cost scheduled airlines, George Williams; Airlines and tourism: interrelations and trends, Andreas Papatheodorou; The economics of 7th freedom, Peter Forsyth; The air cargo industry, Peter S. Morrell; Key issues facing the airport industry, Anne Graham; Challenges to growth: environmental issues and the development of the air transport industry, Ben Daley and Callum Thomas; Advances in transport aircraft and engines, John Snow; Safety management systems in aviation, Graham Braithwaite; Cooperation in air navigation services: is globalization arriving in the world of ANS?, Manjit Singh; IT innovations in passenger services, John F. O'Connell; Aviation security in the United States, Robert Raffel and Jim Ramsay; An examination of the world's most profitable airline in 2009/10: the Emirates business model, John F. O'Connell; Index.