Journal of Air Transport Studies

Initial Pages & Editorial

2024-02-26T18:47:59+02:00

Determinants of international air passenger travel demand in Nigeria: cointegration and causality analysis

2024-02-28T07:00:45+02:00

This paper examines the determinants of international air passenger travel demand in Nigeria using annual data from 1982 to 2019. Autoregressive distributed lag approach was employed to analyse short- and long-run relationships between the variables while Granger causality test was conducted to determine the direction of causality. Total real trade and economic growth are major factors positively influencing air travel demand in the short- and long-run. Contrary to findings in the literature, foreign direct investment impact air travel negatively in the long-run but has a positive effect in the short-run with 1-3year lag. Real exchange rate is found to reduce air travel demand in the short-run. The result indicate a bidirectional Granger causality between air travel and total real trade, and between air travel and economic growth. Infrastructure that will support increase in demand for international air passenger travel due to economic growth are required.

A Century of the Global Airline Industry and the Emergence of the Gulf’s Super Connectors

2024-02-28T07:01:02+02:00

Purpose: This article surveys the existing literature on the three Middle Eastern super connectors and provides insight into their early development and the mainstream research on them.

Design/methodology/approach: Data in business research are often scattered and derived from several fields. This study employs a semi-systematic methodology to survey the existing literature and presents their findings in a single paper.

Findings: The key findings demonstrate the existence of genuine rivalry among the three super connectors, whose fast expansion has piqued the curiosity of both industry professionals and academics. Two main streams of research are evolving: investment in foreign airlines and government subsidies.

Practical implications: The study may be useful for practitioners and academics seeking to understand the current research streams on the Gulf’s super connectors.

Originality/value: The value of this article is in summarising the existing literature into a single document.

Research limitations/implications: Early aviation literature from the Middle East is limited to history books and early literature on oil discovery expeditions. Studying the role of government subsidies is very sensitive and confidential in most cases.

A Structured Literature Review on Destination Branding Through In-Flight Magazines

2024-02-28T07:00:24+02:00

The aim of this research note is to investigate the literature on the identification of brand identity elements of tourist destinations in airline magazines distributed in flight. The methodology followed concerns a relevant literature review for the years 2008-2023. Academic journals with a citation score of 1.0 or higher in the field of tourism and marketing were initially selected from the Scopus database. As the effort did not bring results, a search was carried out in the entire Scopus database, without the above criteria. The keywords used are inflight magazines, in-flight magazines, destination brand, destination branding, destination image, destination identity, however the search resulted in a very small number of articles (27) of which only four (4) were considered as relevant to the subject under consideration. Thus, any criteria that could be used for the review process were re-examined and the search was conducted on a less 'rigorous' basis, Google Scholar, in order to enrich the data and generate a comprehensive discussion of the research question. Finally, only nine (9) articles were collected for analysis (content and textual), while the findings further highlight the research gap that exists in the literature and the need for further research.

Prioritizing crisis management approaches in the airline industry. Evidence from Greece

2024-02-28T07:00:08+02:00

The global airline industry has faced a considerable downturn, because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Numerous measures had to be taken from governments and the airline industry itself in order to survive the pandemic crisis. The Greek airline industry is the main case of this study. The main goal of this study is to prioritize the appropriateness of crisis management approaches in the domestic airline market. To achieve that, Fuzzy MCDM (Multi-Criteria Decision Making) is employed (consequently a set of criteria and their weighting). The criteria are extracted using the thematic analysis and synthesis method gathering data from the international literature and news. The MCDM analysis is implemented in a fuzzy setting due to the inherent uncertainty in the airline market. The results of this study demonstrate that the actions better characterizing the crisis operations of the domestic airline companies fall under the knowledge-based management approach.