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How do airlines react to airport congestion? The role of networks
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between airline network structure and airport congestion. More specifically, we study the ways in which airlines adjust frequencies to delays (as a measure of airport congestion) depending on the network type they operate. Our results suggest that network structure has a fundamental impact. Thus, while airlines operating fully-connected configurations reduce frequencies in response to more frequent delays, airlines operating hub-and-spoke structures increase frequencies. Therefore, network airlines have incentives to keep frequencies high even if this is at the expense of a greater congestion at their hub airports. This result sheds light on previously unclear results in the literature.
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FAGEDA, Xavier and FLORES-FILLOL, Ricardo. How do airlines react to airport congestion? The role of networks. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 2016. Vol. 56, num. January, pags. 73-81. ISSN 0166-0462. [consulted: 10 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/107690