The Airline–Airport Relationship: Allocating Risks and Opportunities in a Vertical Partnership

Airport competition within the Scottish lowlands region

“…Moreover, increased competition between airports has led to the widespread adoption of incentives offered for new or expanded services and sometimes bespoke agreements or contracts between airports and individual airlines (Halpern and Graham, 2016), one of the numerous examples being in Poland (Huderek-Glapska and Nowak, 2016). Such deviation from standard airport published charges is becoming increasingly common in Europe (Fichert, 2019;Jones et al, 2013;Malina et al, 2012). In fact, Jankovic declared that 90% of all members of ACI-Europe offered some type of discount, whilst in the US, Ryerson (2016) in a study of 70 airports, found that incentives were offered by 63% of them.…”