Low-Cost Carriers in Aviation: Significance and Developments
By: Bruno Felipe de Oliveira, Alessandro V. M. Oliveira
Potential Business Impact:
Low-cost flights make travel cheaper for everyone.
This paper aims to discuss the impacts of low-cost airlines on the air transport market and, in particular, to present the most recent findings from the specialized literature in this field. To this end, several papers published on the topic since 2015 were selected and analyzed. Based on this analysis, the main subjects addressed in the studies were categorized into five groups: (i) impacts of low-cost airlines on competing carriers; (ii) impacts on airports; (iii) general effects on air transport demand; (iv) effects on passengers' choice processes; and (v) broader effects on geographical regions.
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