Chapter 3



Chapter 3 Airline Economics, Markets & Demand

Learning Objectives:

The student will know the following terminology:

• Airline System-Wide Measures

o Traffic / Revenue Passenger Miles (RPM)

▪ 4 types of traffic

o Yield

o Capacity/ Available Seat Miles (ASM)

o Unit Cost

o Load Factor = Passengers/ Capacity

▪ Average Leg Load Factor

▪ Average Network Load Factor

o Rejected Demand/Spill

• Basic Airline Profit Equation = Revenue - Cost

o Airline Profit Maximizing Strategies

• Air Transportation Markets

o Typical Air Passenger Trip

o Markets

▪ Opposite ( Parallel

▪ City-pair ( Region-pair

o Direct/ Connecting Flights

o Dichotomy of Demand and Supply

• Origin-Destination (O-D) Demand

o Factors affecting Volume of O-D Demand

o Quality of Service Factors

o Total Trip Time Model

o O-D Demand Models

▪ Linear/ Additive D = a – bP

▪ Multiplicative D = aPb where b ................
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