Who wins and who loses when airlines form alliances?
Who wins and who loses when airlines form alliances?
- July 29, 2019
- Jan Brueckner, economics, in Futurity, July 29, 2019
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“On the pricing side, alliances have both an upside and a downside,” says lead author, Jan Brueckner, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. … “Cooperation by the alliance partners reduces the fare relative to the one charged by two nonaligned carriers, who operate at arm’s length,” Brueckner says.
For the full story, please visit https://www.futurity.org/airline-alliances-consumers-money-2117102/.
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