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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"air carriers"”.
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Pilot Perception of Electronic Flight Bags at Part 121 Air Carriers
… by pilots in flight operations at many Part 121 air carriers in the United States since 2010. As an automated device replacing paper in the cockpit, there are many human factor issues that relate to operation of the EFB. EFBs have been cited in accidents and incidents worldwide in large, …
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An Industry Assessment: Are Aircraft Dispatchers in a Holding Pattern?
… assessment provided an in-depth view of the aircraft dispatcher industry. An assessment of the industry was needed to project the future of the aircraft dispatcher profession, as well as indicate the necessity of additional aircraft dispatcher training facilities in the United States. The …
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Effect of Air Carrier Restructuring Strategies on Post-bankruptcy Performance
<p>Air carrier bankruptcy is a common occurrence in the aviation industry. However, there is a paucity of research on the topic of air carrier restructuring during the post-bankruptcy period. General restructuring literature has identified four types of actions: operational, financial, managerial, …
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Práva cestujících v mezinárodní letecké přepravě s přihlédnutím k vlivu pandemie COVID-19
Rights of passengers in international air transport and the influence of COVID- 19 pandemic Abstract The thesis is devoted to the legal regulation of the relationship between passengers and air carriers in air passenger transport. The text is set in a general historical framework, which illustrates …
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An Econometric Analysis of the NW/KLM Corporate Alliance
… a corporate alliance between international air carriers is beneficial, considering the changes in the global air transport system. Dividing the research method into three phases, the author first lists and identifies the recent changes in world air transport trends. Then, the author defines …
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Transitory Forecasting Methodology: Passenger/Revenue Share and Capacity Share (The S-Curve)
… passenger share for domestic, United States air carriers. Carrier ranking was then added as a predicting variable to gain further insight into the correlation between service share and passenger share. It is anticipated that this study will be beneficial to airline network planners in their …
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Thunder in the desert: Commercial air travel and tourism in Las Vegas, 1959--2001
… examines the relationship between the commercial air travel and tourist industries in Las Vegas, especially highlighting their unprecedented growth in the second half of the twentieth century. It not only provides an accurate historic account of both industries, but clearly delineates the …
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Software agents : an application to the airline MRO industry
Poor management of aircraft spare parts, human-related maintenance errors and the lack of coordinated decision-making in maintenance scheduling are some of the problems plaguing the airline MRO industry. Airlines, independent MRO providers and government agencies, particularly the Federal Aviation …
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Modeling of ground operations using end-around (perimeter) taxiways for the modernized Chicago O'Hare International Airport
By 2031, U.S. air carriers are projected to transport 1.3 billion passengers within the U.S. National Airspace System, with system capacity projected to increase an average of 3.6 percent per year (FAA Aerospace Forecasts 2011-2031). Through the Next Generation Air Transport System project, a …
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Technical and institutional priorities for enhancing rail/aviation cooperation for the future intercity passenger transportation
There are currently about 120 airport rail links existing or proposed to be constructed around the world. The growth in the number of airport rail links reflects the almost relentless growth in air travel and the associated worsening congestion and delays on both landside and airside of airports. …
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Securitizing Air Spaces: How the Pan Am 103 Bombing Led to a New Extraterritorial Aviation Regime
The introduction of security in airspace management presented an interesting problem as the United States inserted itself as the new arbiter of international aviation security. By its very nature, aviation security requires strict policing standards on both ends of travel, at both the departure and …
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Analysis of approach stability and challenges in operational implementation of RNP approach procedures
… and published public RNP approach procedures at airports across the country. These RNP procedures offer unique capabilities such as curved segments (radius-to-fix, or RF legs), narrow containment areas, and constant descent profiles that are not seen combined in other categories of instrument …
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Monitoring safety during airline operations : a systems approach
… (FOQA) programs are today customary among major airlines. Technological progress has made it possible to monitor more than 1000 parameters per flight. Given the limited amount of resources an airline can allocate to analyze this amount of data, a need has emerged for more effective approaches to …
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Evaluating Flight Crew Decision-Making Through Part 121 Taxi Operations
… have been able to log and store information on aircraft identification, airspeed, heading, and altitude all in one database.to Now, anyone can access previously hard-to-obtain flight data for analysis using a commercially available database. While ADS-B provides information on “what is …
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Regional airline qualifications: A study in the marketability of higher education graduates.
The recent emergence and growth of the regional airlines in the United States has placed a strain on the supply of pilots that are needed for staffing scheduled flights. This present pilot shortage is presenting challenges for 2-year colleges and 4-year universities with aviation programs to …
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Essays on the industrial organization of the airline industry
… aspects of the Industrial Organization of the airline industry in three separate chapters. Chapter 1 investigates the effect of air traffic delays on airline prices. The degree to which prices respond to changes in service quality should depend on consumers' willingness-to-pay for quality, as …
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Evolution of low-cost airlines in different global regions
Low-cost air carriers have been growing aggressively in many regions around the world and today offer a significant proportion of the available flight and seat capacity in the markets where they operate. This thesis studies the airline capacity evolution of low-cost carriers (LCCs) between 2009 and …
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Situation Awareness Assessment of Enhanced Stable Approach Flight Instrument Displays
… were the third leading causes of fatal aircraft accidents. Principal to these runway-related accidents was the presence of an unstable approach. Pilots currently must depend on the timely recall of stable approach criteria stored in long-term memory, application of those criteria against …
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Regional Airline Pilot Commute: How Commuting by Air Affects Pilots' Satisfaction with Life
… use and competitiveness amongst U.S. regional airlines, and the growing pilot shortage, regional air carriers and pilots alike lack proper understanding how pilot commutes by airplane affect satisfaction with life. There are numerous studies on how commuting by vehicle, bicycle, mass transit …
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Fatigue Mitigation Effects of En-Route Napping on Commercial Airline Pilots Flying International Routes
The introduction of ultra-long range commercial aircraft and the evolution of the commercial airline industry has provided new opportunities for air carriers to fly longer range international route segments while deregulation, industry consolidation, and the constant drive to reduce costs wherever …
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