Books in the Ashgate Studies in Aviation Economics and Management series

This text looks at the role of management operations and human resources within the Total Quality Management context in the airline industry. The book assesses external relations, internal relations and industrial relations, as well as looking at the management structure throughout.

Deregulation has radically altered the way in which airlines are operated and managed. This book aims to examine the response of carriers to liberalization in a number of representative air transport markets and to provide an explanation for the wide variation in levels of competition.

Strategic airline alliances are an important topic in airline management today, stimulated by poor access of international airlines to large domestic markets such as the USA and EU and the increasing importance of network scope.

This tour d'horizon book reviews airport regulation and competition in different regions of the world and contrasts different policy perspectives. Editor Forsyth from Monash University, Vic.

This work examines the causes and failures of most new-entrant airlines, and the environment they operate in. Attention is given to the new entrant's strategy and management, in order to explore past deficiencies and pave the way for successful new strategies.

China has experienced rapid growth in air traffic and in its aviation industry since the 1980s. This book, aimed at researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students in the field, examines the current state of China's air cargo industry.

An overview of the low fare airline sector, its market and competitor context and the structures and strategies of its main protagonists. It details the effect on the European aircraft industry, the EU, and low price competition in other parts of the world.