Airport strategies in a competitive environment

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Edgar Jimenez (Author) Other; João Claro (Author) FEUP; Jorge Pinho de Sousa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 13th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR)

Pages: 1-22

13th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) 2013

Rio de Janeiro , Brasil, 15-18 Julho 2013

Other information

Abstract (EN): The liberalisation of the air transport market has introduced new dynamics in the airport industry, greatly increasing its complexity. In recent decades, airports have evolved from infrastructure providers in a monopolistic context, to commercially-orientated enterprises in a competitive environment. Existing research on airport competition is usually focused on traffic leakage from neighbouring airports for origin-destination markets, or between large hubs for transfers. However, the existence of competition between airports, in the different ways presented in this work, has created a change of paradigm and sufficient evidence for abandoning the idea of airports as monopolies. This work aims at proposing an integrated framework for the analysis of the airport industry in which an airport is seen as a multi-service firm that interacts with a network of stakeholders - the airport business network – to deliver several service packages to different groups of customers. We present three novel contributions for the analysis of the global airport industry: a new definition of customer groups for the airport, viewed as a multi- service firm; the airport business network, a model to examine the interactions between the agents involved in the airport business to produce the airport service packages; and an identification of differentiation factors that airport managers may combine to produce competitive strategies. We also propose the integration of these elements, in order to provide a common framework to support the analysis of the current competitive environment within the industry.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 22