Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Cannabis in US airports

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  An anomaly of US Federal law is that marijuana is illegal on airplanes (interstate commerce) even when the airports involved are in states...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Elizabeth "Betsy" E. Bailey (1939-2022)

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  Betsey Bailey, an economist of many parts, has passed away. I knew of her both as an academic dean at CMU and as a proponent of airline de...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Keeping pilots in the Air Force, in the face of renewed, post-pandemic demand from airlines

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 I spent a good deal of time last year working on understanding the internal labor market of the Air Force, and how it interacts with the la...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Frequent flier miles, infrequent flying, and credit cards

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  The WSJ has the story of how frequent flier programs keep airlines afloat even when there is less frequent flying: American Airlines to Us...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Frequent flier programs during the pandemic slowdown in air travel

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 It turns out that frequent flier programs get a lot of their income from credit cards that reward purchases with miles. So they are one of ...
Monday, December 16, 2019

United frequent flier updates as market design, by Scott Kominers

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Scott Kominers, at Bloomberg (possibly written while flying): United’s Frequent-Flier Program Gets Some Game Theory The change is a case...
Monday, May 13, 2019

PBS on Uber's economists

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Paul Solman interviews Uber economists (John Hall and others) and other economists (Susan Athey and Paul Oyer) on what economists do at Ube...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Signaling that you're not a business traveller by committing to a mixed strategy

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Airlines like to price-discriminate against business travellers and others whose trips are non-discretionary. So, how to identify the leisur...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Matchmaking on a plane

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On those long overseas flights, picking a seatmate is a bit like picking a roommate, and KLM is on the case:  Mile-high matchmaking: airline...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

More on the taking of photos

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Here are two followups on my earlier post today on British Airways' claims about photographs . The first via Paola Manzini, concerns US ...
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British Airways Conditions of Carriage

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A disturbing incident at British Airways raises interesting questions about their Conditions of Carriage , the fine-print online contract th...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Random allocation, preferences, and welfare: a fish story

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Flying from Madrid to Boston on an Airbus with two aisles not long ago, two stewardesses proceeded in parallel down the aisles offering food...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Auctions of airport slots: dead in the water, again.

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The latest news on plans to auction off takeoff and landing slots at NY's LaGuardia airport: DOT scraps auction plan for NYC airports ....
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Market for airline flights

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As the pricing, scheduling, and seating options grow more complex, booking an airline ticket is looking more like a combinatorial auction. S...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Auctions of airport takeoff and landing slots--maybe not so soon after all

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Auctions of slots at NYC airports delayed yet again: Court Order Delays Auction of Landing Slots at Airports "A court order on Monday d...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Auctions of airport takeoff and landing slots--maybe coming soon

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U.S. to Auction Slots Soon at New York City Airports reports the Times. "The auction is scheduled for next Friday, with results annou...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Airline safety: incentives and reporting

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The NY Times has a story on airline safety, Panel Backs Letting Airlines Confess Errors Unpunished . Airlines and doctors have very differe...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Auctions for airline slots

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A good idea that isn't going anywhere quickly is an auction for airline slots in the most congested airports. Here's a recent story ...