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. Time Series ApplicationsOligopolistic Pricing of Low Cost AirlinesCost Recovery?Impact of Ryanair on Market Share and Passenger NumbersImpact of Airline Alliances?formationOpen skies agreements. Figure 1: A Location Map of Nottingham East Midlands Airport, UK. . Source: http://www.multi
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1. The use of time series analysis for the analysis of airlines
D.E.Pitfield
Transport Studies Group
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
UK
Paper presented at Fifth Israeli/British & Irish Regional Science Workshop, Ramat-Gan, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 29 April - 1 May 2007.
2. Time Series Applications
Oligopolistic Pricing of Low Cost Airlines
Cost Recovery?
Impact of Ryanair on Market Share and Passenger Numbers
Impact of Airline Alliances?
formation
Open skies agreements
3. Figure 1: A Location Map of Nottingham East Midlands Airport, UK.
Source: http://www.multimap.com/
7. Figure 7: CCF plot: Malaga
8.
ACF:
bmibaby 0.899
easyJet 0.650
ACF bmibaby 0.899 easyJet 0.650 CCF: 0.452 at lag 1day easyJet leading bmibaby
9. Figure 10: CCF plot: Alicante
10. CCF: 0.808 at Lag 0
ACF:
bmibaby 0.375
easyJet 0.535
11. Figure 18: CCF plot. LGW-PRA
12. Figure 1: Ryanair’s Route Network
13. Figure 2: London Area Airports
14. Selected Airports Genoa
Hamburg
Pisa
Stockholm
Venice
15. London-Venice 1991-2003
16. London-Venice 1991-2003
17.
Venice Intervention Model - with regular differencing
Parameters t tests Goodness of Fit
MA1 0.565 8.019 SE = 0.084
SAR1 -0.458 -5.981 Log Likelihood = 151.540
Intervention Ryanair
0.258 4.548 AIC = -295.081
Intervention GO
0.236 4.165 SBC = -283.229
RMS= 3156.129 U = 0.037 Um = 0.003, Us =0.001, Uc = 0.995
18. Minimum Start-Up Impact of Ryanair by destination
Genoa – 44%
Hamburg – 12%
Pisa – 30%
Stockholm – 10%
Venice – 26%
19. Alliances Oum et al (2000) Globalization and Strategic Alliances: The Case of the Airline Industry
Parallel Alliances
Competition decreases
Coordination of schedules
Restricted output
Increased fares
FFPs
20. Complementary Alliances
Fares fall
Network Choices Improve
Traffic Falls?
Alliance Share increases?
21. Expectations and Perceptions Iatrou, K & Alamdari, F. (2005), The Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Alliances on Airline Operations, Journal of Air Transport Management
Impact on traffic and shares is positive
hubs at O and D?
1-2 years
Open skies has biggest impact
22. Data North Atlantic – scale and role of alliances
BTS T-100 International Market Data
monthly, January 1990- December 2003
Hubs
Choice?
European – LHR, CDG, FRA, AMS
not LHR or AMS
USA – JFK, ORD, LAX
23. Parallel
CDG – JFK (Skyteam – AF and DL)
FRA – ORD ( Star Alliance – LH and UA)
Complementary
FRA – JFK ( Star Alliance – LH)
FRA – LAX (Star Alliance – LH/NZ)
CDG/ORY – BOS (Skyteam – AF)
24. ARIMA and Intervention Analysis Model traffic before Intervention(s)
Using parsimonious models
Specify Intervention term and model whole data series
Abrupt impact
Gradual impact, over one or two years
Exponential or stepped
Lagged Abrupt impact
25. Figure 4.1: Traffic CDG-JFK 1990-2003
26. Figure 4.11: Alliance Share, CDG-JFK 1990-2003
27. Paris (CDG) – New York (JFK)
A B C
Average monthly Average monthly Average monthly
traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter
including start 1 year after A 2 years after A
of intervention
Traffic
Code sharing
42,573 54,529 58,128
Immunity
33,290 32,817 36,339
Alliance Share %
Code sharing
73.2 72.1 71.1
Immunity
77.9 77.4 75.8
28. Seems? Traffic stimulated after code sharing and immunity. Shares?
Intervention Analysis? – no significant intervention. Indigenous influences on traffic more important as well as other exogenous influences i.e. ceteris paribus
including 9/11 – 42% drop in total
29. Figure 4.2: Traffic CDG/ORY-BOS 1990-2003
30. Figure 4.21: Alliance Share, CDG/ORY-BOS 1990-2003
31. Paris (CDG/ORY) – Boston (BOS)
A B C
Average monthly Average monthly Average monthly
traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter
including start 1 year after A 2 years after A
of intervention
Traffic
Code sharing
12,858 13,481 14,767
Immunity
10,434 8,924 10,004
Alliance Share %
Code sharing
47.2 61.7 69.8
Immunity
65.2 100.0 100.0
32. Seems? Traffic increased from code sharing but not immediately from immunity. Shares? – AA!
Intervention? Only nearly significant results are of a negative impact for traffic!
But this reflects 9/11 impact
Cannot model shares as partners have 0 traffic for some months
33. Figure 4.3: Traffic FRA-JFK 1990-2003
34. Figure 4.31: Alliance Share, FRA-JFK 1990-2003
35. Frankfurt(FRA) – New York(JFK)
A B C
Average monthly Average monthly Average monthly
traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter
including start 1 year after A 2 years after A
of intervention
Traffic
Code sharing
42,064 42,856 43,090
Immunity
40,623 29,872 32,630
Alliance Share %
Code sharing
30.6 32.7 32.5
Immunity
33.0 46.5 51.7
36. Seems? Little impact on traffic but impact on shares
Intervention – not significant apart from a possible negative impact
-contradicts expectations and theory of complementary alliances
37. Figure 4.4: Traffic FRA-ORD 1990-2003
38. Figure 4.41: Alliance Share, FRA-ORD 1990-2003
39. Frankfurt (FRA) – Chicago (ORD)
A B C
Average monthly Average monthly Average monthly
traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter
including start 1 year after A 2 years after A
of intervention
Traffic
Code sharing
17,889 21,030 22,392
Immunity
22,392 23,632 32,472
Alliance Share %
Code sharing
73.1 74.5 76.8
Immunity
76.8 79.4 83.5
40. Seems? Alliance partners hub at origin and destination so may expect a positive impact
Traffic seems to increase especially from open skies. Shares up at both interventions
Intervention. Results are positive and nearly significant contrary to theory of parallel alliances. Best results but not conclusive.
41. Figure 4.5: Traffic FRA-LAX 1990-2003
42. Figure 4.51: Alliance Share, FRA-LAX 1990-2003
43. Frankfurt (FRA) – Los Angeles (LAX)
A B C
Average monthly Average monthly Average monthly
traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter traffic in the quarter
including start 1 year after A 2 years after A
of intervention
Traffic
Code sharing
14,511 18,264 18,622
Immunity
18,622 19,319 17,134
Alliance Share %
Code sharing
51.1 54.4 51.4
Immunity
51.4 74.4 83.7
44. Seems? Traffic stimulated from code sharing and shares up from open skies
Intervention – no significant results. Major impact is probably the withdrawal of Continental some 11 months later and this causes alliance share to grow
45. Conclusion Weak evidence suggests that impact of complementary alliances is to reduce traffic and shares. Contrary to all theory.
Some evidence that positive impact from parallel alliances when participants hub, but this is contrary to theory cf. expectations.
Generally, other things matter.
46. Open Skies agreements appear to cause a decrease in traffic and competition; true for all alliance types – transatlantic traffic may not grow as these agreements spread.
Alliance strength may be barrier to entry