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25
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Transportation,"Engineering, Civil",Transportation,"Operatione Research & Management Science
In this paper, we analyze the service provided by the 13 largest US pa
ssenger airlines to the 100 most populous US metropolitan areas in 198
9. We classify the route systems by their nature and geographic scope
using a variety of measures based on route-level data. We then identif
y individual airline hub locations; derive and calculate several measu
res of the extent of competition on individual routes, for individual
airlines and at the airports in our sample; and analyze relationships
among route structure, costs, and subsequent carrier performance. The
results show the wide diversity of route networks that existed in the
airline industry in 1989 - a phenomenon that may help to explain the e
ventual failure of several major carriers.