Profit Strategies for Air Transportation

An Introduction to the Economics and Operations of Airlines

There are numerous textbooks about economics. Nevertheless, airline economy or the so-called transportation economy is a relatively new field, and little literature is available where the technical and economic characteristics are brought together. This book attempts to shed some light on this aspect of analyzing the subject by applying economic principles to airline operations. The goal of this book is to generate interest, for a financially oriented person, in the technical aspects and, for a technically oriented person, in the accounting and financial outcomes of airline operations. This book incorporates materials for:

Airline operations, cost analysis, and cost allocation
Corporate planning
Aircraft economics and aircraft capabilities (performance evaluation)

This textbook was written for financial and accounting managers engaged and involved in planning, analyzing, and conducting airline operations and for technical managers to be familiar with the financial side of operations. In today's complex world, a thorough knowledge of one side of airline operations also would require a good general knowledge of many other phases of the financial and technical fields. A successful businessman should be fully aware of the technical problems, constraints, and limitations that may occur in airline operations. Similarly, technically oriented managers could improve their job performance by having knowledge about aircraft financing and profitability of operations, as well as accounting problems, cost allocations, etc.

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