Executive Summary: The commercial airline business is highly capital intensive and competitive, and is characterized by boom and bust periods that largely correspond with global and/or domestic economic cycles. Indeed, the fortunes of most major airlines rise and fall in keeping with economic gr...

MEMORANDUM TO: Secretary Elizabeth Dole, Department of Transportation FROM: DATE: December 4, 2000 SUBJECT: Recommendation that the Department of Transportation should implement a competitive market system of slot allocation as a means of achieving efficiency. In this scheme, supply ...

Airline Deregulation and Its Effects The 1978 Airline Deregulation Act deeply affected the air transportation industry. Fares established by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) based on a uniform rate-of-return regulation prior to deregulation became subject only to market forces. Firms facing ba...

Introduction Canada is the second largest country in the world, which ranks 28th in terms of population. The population density of Canada approximately is three persons per square kilometer. Canada's 30 million population is located in the area which is 10 million square kilometers in size fro...