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AIRLINE ECONOMICS IN ASIA

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ADVANCES IN AIRLINE ECONOMICS

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ADVANCES IN AIRLINE ECONOMICS VOLUME 7

AIRLINE ECONOMICS IN ASIA

EDITED BY

XIAOWEN FU

The University of Sydney Business School, Australia

JAMES PEOPLES

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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ISBN: 978-1-78754-566-3 (Print)

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ISSN: 2212-1609 (Series)

List of Contributors

Editorial Members

SERIES EDITOR

James Peoples

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

• John Bitzan

  North Dakota State University, USA

• Kevin Cullinane

  University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Xiaowen Fu

  The University of Sydney, Australia

BOARD OF EDITORS

• Volodymyr Bilotkach

  Newcastle University, UK

• Jan K. Brueckner

  University of California, Irvine, USA

• Martin Dresner

  University of Maryland, College Park, USA

• David Gillen

  University of British Columbia, Canada

• Timothy J. Hazledine

  University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Marc Ivaldi

  Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France

• Theodore E. Keeler

  University of California, Berkeley, USA

• B. Starr McMullen

  Oregon State University, USA

• Steven Morrison

  Northeastern University, USA

• Claudio Piga

  Keele University, UK

• Nicholas G. Rupp

  East Carolina University, USA

• Ian Savage

  Northwestern University, USA

• Wayne Talley

  Old Dominion University, USA

• Wesley W. Wilson

  University of Oregon, USA

About the Editors

James Peoples is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research includes analysis of production efficiency for different modes of freight transportation, as well as analysis of labor market activity in transportation industries. He has served as President of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. He is also the Series Editor of Advances in Airline Economics and Editorial Board Member of the journal Transport Policy.

Xiaowen Fu is Associate Professor in the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, the University of Sydney. His main research area is transport economics, which covers issues such as competition policy and government regulation, efficiency benchmarking, transport demand modeling, and industrial organization. He is on the editorial boards of three journals including Transportation Research – Part B and Part E, and is an editor of the journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of the book series Advances in Airlines Economics. Dr Fu is Vice President (Research) of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), Vice President (Research) of the Institute for Aviation (UK), Founding Chair of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention.