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Service-quality and pricing strategies in the airline industry: The role of distance
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This paper analyzes airlines's fare and frequency decisions, both theoretically and empirically. These decisions depend on route distance, as only short-haul routes are affected by intermodal competition from personal transportation. Although fares increase with distance both on short- and long-haul routes, the effect of distance on frequencies depends on the presence of intermodal competition. Frequencies decay with distance on long-haulroutes. However, on short-haul routes, frequencies increase with distance because airlines try to boost profits by attracting demand from other transportation modes. Finally, on short-haul routes, intermodal competition from personal transportation affects more intensively network carriers than low-cost carriers as distance rises, which produces an increased differentiation between both types of airlines
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FAGEDA, Xavier and FLORES-FILLOL, Ricardo. Service-quality and pricing strategies in the airline industry: The role of distance. Economics of Transportation. 2024. Vol. 40, num. 1-16. ISSN 2212-0122. [consulted: 17 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219124