Factors affecting airport route development activity and performance

Halpern, Nigel; Graham, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2016.04.016

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“…Responses were received from managers at 115 airports, out of which 94 were complete and used in the analysis. The sample size is similar to those used in other studies based on a survey of airports worldwide, for instance, 58 airports in Francis et al (2002 , 2003) , 124 in Halpern and Graham (2015 , 2016) , 137 in Paraschi et al (2020) and 154 in Halpern et al (2012) . Table 4 compares respondent airports to the sampling frame according to region and size of airport and provides additional sample characteristics.…”

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Ready for digital transformation? The effect of organisational readiness, innovation, airport size and ownership on digital change at airports

Halpern

Mwesiumo

Suau-Sánchez

et al. 2021

Journal of Air Transport Management

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This study investigates the effect of organisational readiness, innovation and airport size and ownership on digital change at airports. Data is collected from a survey of managers at 94 airports worldwide and analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Organisational readiness is found to have a direct effect on digital change. Organisational readiness also has a direct effect on innovation, which subsequently affects digital change. Airport size has a direct effect on digital change while the effect of ownership is not significant. The findings show that successful development of organisational readiness can be used to speed up the rate of innovation needed for digital change at airports.

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Ready for digital transformation? The effect of organisational readiness, innovation, airport size and ownership on digital change at airports

Halpern

Mwesiumo

Suau-Sánchez

et al. 2021

Journal of Air Transport Management

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“…However, Green (2007) argues that increasing capacity of airports has huge economic costs which would be impractical for host cities to fund and facilitate growth. Smaller cities and associated airports should not aim to increase capacity to promote city growth but rather focus on route development, involving attracting, growing and retaining air services within the airport itself (Halpern & Graham, 2016). This paper has not examined the increased concerns in environmental impacts that air services may have, but does acknowledge that these impacts should be considered further.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Airports have been recognised in their role of influencing planning decisions and land developments in an area, acting as catalysts for regional economic growth (Halpern & Graham, 2016;Kazda et al, 2017;Niewiadomski, 2019;Cidell, 2014). Airports have been described as growth engines by governments and as such, politics and planning bodies have supported airports to increase local economic activity and to stimulate new investment for the region (Mosbah & Ryerson, 2016;Robertson, 1995).…”

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“…This is due to the airline Flybe which started operation from Southend Airport with route development occurring to new destinations in 2017 (Anna. Aero, 2019;Halpern & Graham, 2016). All three airports vary in growth patterns between 2015 and March 2019 with Cardiff Airport having the fastest overall growth, Southend Airport was second and Bournemouth had the lowest growth of passenger numbers.…”

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Access to Small Airports and the Impact on Regional Growth in the UK

Ralphs¹,

Shahab²,

Ahmadpoor³

2020

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This paper focuses on how the accessibility of small airports affects the regional growth in the UK. Three airports that have less than two million passengers annually, are used for this study: Bournemouth, Cardiff International and London Southend Airport. The purpose of this study is threefold: 1) to investigate how the size of an airport influences growth and provides planning authorities support for permitting development around the airport, 2) to examine the impact that improving accessibility has on smaller airports, and 3) to analyse how regional development plans consider airports when airport developments occur. To this end, secondary data was used to analyse the current growth patterns linking economic indicators to airport use. Evaluating the accessibility of each small airport with the transport network by using a variety of databases and navigation software. Overall conclusions of this study show that the size of an airport is not as significant as the stability of the airports growth in influencing economic growth. Accessibility was found to improve regional growth around the airport and that the road network provided the best access due to the location of the case-study airports. Regional development plans considered airports as a gateway to drive economic growth with specific industries being supported. However, there is concern around airports for their development into greenbelts due to "exceptional circumstances" by the National Planning Policy Framework. Provision of independent development plans related solely to airports reduces the decision duration by local authorities.

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“…Classic questionnaires and surveys were the most commonly used in such cases. Warnock-Smith and Potter (2005) used them for an explorative study into the airport choice factors of LCCs, while Halpern and Graham (2016) found them appropriate for investigating the factors affecting route network developments and performance of small airports. Whilst providing information directly from the airline and airport units responsible for network development is a key advantage of such studies, they have been burdened with a rather low response rates and are specific to the scope of samples used.…”

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Determinants of air traffic volumes and structure at small European airports

Dziedzic

Njoya

Warnock-Smith

et al. 2020

Research in Transportation Economics

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This study investigates the determinants of air traffic volumes and structure (carrier type) at lesser studied small European airports serving below one million passengers per annum. It discusses airport choice factors for airline customers and focuses on the characteristics of small airports and their catchment areas in order to explain variation in 2016 traffic volumes for 146 regional gateways in 21 EU countries. Through the application of multiple linear regression and correlation it is found that population size, airport charges and the need for capacity coordination are the most related to the number of passengers using these airports. Several different correlations are found with respect to the share of low-cost, full-service and charter carriers as a proportion of total airport traffic, which in most cases extends the findings of the limited number of other studies in the field of small regional airports. The research concludes that while certain relationships can be found, their statistical significance is moderate, leaving scope for a deeper study into a smaller samples of airports. subsidised air services, hoping that the resulting inbound traffic would propel the local economy and tourism (Bel, 2009; Francis, Fidato, & Humphreys, 2003). The general framework of airport-airline relationships and airport route network development strategies have been explored by Graham (2014, 2013). Others have investigated causalities between airline traffic and more specific variables, such as catchment area expansion (

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Factors affecting airport route development activity and performance

Cited by 26 publications

References 7 publications

Ready for digital transformation? The effect of organisational readiness, innovation, airport size and ownership on digital change at airports

Ready for digital transformation? The effect of organisational readiness, innovation, airport size and ownership on digital change at airports

Access to Small Airports and the Impact on Regional Growth in the UK

Determinants of air traffic volumes and structure at small European airports

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