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DECISION MODELS FOR AIRLINE
PASSENGER AND CARGO
NETWORK ALLIANCES
LANG CHUNMEI
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
FEBRUARY 2006
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
香港城市大學
Decision Models for Airline Passenger and Cargo Network Alliances
航空客貨運網路聯盟的決策模型
Submitted to
Department of Management Sciences
管理科學學系
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
哲學博士學位
by
Lang Chunmei
郎春梅
February 2006
二零零六年二月
Abstract
Strategic alliances are widely practiced in the automotive, electronics, computer telecommunications, airlines and hi-technology network-oriented industries. The airline industry has become one of the most competitive industries in recent years. The only practical way to secure and increase market share in international air transport is to align with existing airlines based in foreign territories. Nowadays, airlines have actively formed strategic alliances with foreign carriers as a means of forming global networks to increase passenger and freight market share. Extensive works have been devoted to studying airline alliances. However, existing studies only focus on the air passenger alliance and ignore the airline service network structure.
This thesis develops, for the first time, several economic models to study the strategic alliance of both passenger and cargo services from a network integration approach. The alliance synergies and network complementary are addressed. The thesis is developed in three distinct stages and the results are then collated and
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DECISION MODELS FOR AIRLINE
PASSENGER AND CARGO
NETWORK ALLIANCES
LANG CHUNMEI
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
FEBRUARY 2006
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
香港城市大學
Decision Models for Airline Passenger and Cargo Network Alliances
航空客貨運網路聯盟的決策模型
Submitted to
Department of Management Sciences
管理科學學系
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
哲學博士學位
by
Lang Chunmei
郎春梅
February 2006
二零零六年二月
Abstract
Strategic alliances are widely practiced in the automotive, electronics, computer telecommunications, airlines and hi-technology network-oriented industries. The airline industry has become one of the most competitive industries in recent years. The only practical way to secure and increase market share in international air transport is to align with existing airlines based in foreign territories. Nowadays, airlines have actively formed strategic alliances with foreign carriers as a means of forming global networks to increase passenger and freight market share. Extensive works have been devoted to studying airline alliances. However, existing studies only focus on the air passenger alliance and ignore the airline service network structure.
This thesis develops, for the first time, several economic models to study the strategic alliance of both passenger and cargo services from a network integration approach. The alliance synergies and network complementary are addressed. The thesis is developed in three distinct stages and the results are then collated and