Airport Competition

Peter Forsyth, Monash University, Australia; David Gillen, University of British Columbia, Canada; Jürgen Müller, Berlin School of Economics, Germany and Hans-Martin Niemeier, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

1: Introduction and Overview; A: How Do Airports Compete and How Strong is Competition?; 2: Airport Competition and Network Access: A European Perspective; 3: Airport Entry and Exit: A European Analysis; 4: Airport Pricing; 5: Countervailing Power to Airport Monopolies; 6: Competition Between Major and Secondary Airports: Implications for Pricing, Regulation and Welfare; 7: Airport Strategies to Gain Competitive Advantage; 8: An Empirical Analysis of Airport Operational Costs; 9: Competition Between Airports: Occurrence and Strategy; 10: Airport Competition for Freight; B: Traveller Choice and Airport Competition; 11: Modelling Air Travel Choice Behaviour; 12: Airport Choice Behaviour: Findings from Three Separate Studies; 13: Improved Modelling of Competition among Airports through Flexible Form and Non-Diagonal Demand Structures Explaining Flows Registered within a New Traffic Accounting Matrix; C: Case Studies of Airport Competition; 14: Competition in the German Airport Market: An Empirical Investigation; 15: Competition among Airports and Overlapping Catchment Areas: An Application to the State of Baden-Württemberg; 16: Airport Competition in Greece: Concentration and Structural Asymmetry; 17: The Airport Industry in a Competitive Environment: A United Kingdom Perspective 1; 18: The Effect of Low-Cost Carriers on Regional Airports' Revenue: Evidence from the UK; D: Policy Issues; 19: Competition and the London Airports: How Effective Will It Be?; 20: Airport Alliances and Multi-Airport Companies: Implications for Airport Competition; 21: Airport Competing Terminals: Recent Developments at Dublin Airport; 22: Competition, State Aids and Low-Cost Carriers: A Legal Perspective; 23: Subsidies and Competition: An Economic Perspective; 24: Competition for Airport Services — Ground Handling Services in Europe: Case Studies on Six Major European Hubs 1; 25: Airport Competition: Market Dominance and Abuse; 26: Airport Competition: A Perspective and Synthesis