An empirical analysis of delays in the Turkish Airlines network
This paper investigates the determinants of delays on international and domestic routes of Turkish Airlines in 2014, focusing on the effects of airport market share and airport market concentration. When examining the impact of airport market share, we find that delays are decreasing in market share...
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| Published in: | Journal of air transport management Vol. 65; pp. 76 - 87 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd
01-10-2017
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| Summary: | This paper investigates the determinants of delays on international and domestic routes of Turkish Airlines in 2014, focusing on the effects of airport market share and airport market concentration. When examining the impact of airport market share, we find that delays are decreasing in market share for both domestic and international routes. We use market concentration to test whether airlines internalize the cost of the delays for their passengers. We find results that are consistent with the internalization hypothesis on domestic routes; however, on international routes, our estimates are inconsistent with the internalization hypothesis. We propose that these results may be due to market share being more critical than market concentration in determining delays and that the internalization effect is limited. Additionally, we find that delays are lower at airports that connect to more destinations.
•We examine the determinants of departure delays for Turkish Airlines in 2014.•Compare the effect of market share and market concentration on delays.•Increasing market share leads to shorter delays on domestic and international routes.•Using market concentration, we find mixed results for internalization of delays.•Market share appears to be better than market concentration at explaining delays. |
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| ISSN: | 0969-6997 1873-2089 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2017.09.008 |