Arbeitspapier
Airline Mitigation of Propagated Delays: Theory and Empirics on the Choice of Schedule Buffers
This paper presents an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the choice of schedule buffers by airlines. With airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an under-taking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from the theoretical analysis of a two-flight model is that the mitigation of delay prop-agation is done entirely by the ground buffer and the second flight’s buffer. The first flight’s buffer plays no role because the ground buffer is a perfect, while nondistorting, substitute. In addition, the apportionment of mitigation responsibility between the ground buffer and the flight buffer of flight 2 is shown to depend on the relationship between the costs of ground-and flight-buffer time. The empirical results show the connection between buffer magnitudes and a host of explanatory variables, including the variability of flight times, which simulations of the model identify as an important determining factor.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7875
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Air Transportation
- Subject
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flight delays
delay propagation
buffers
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Brueckner, Jan K.
Czerny, Achim I.
Gaggero, Alberto A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Brueckner, Jan K.
- Czerny, Achim I.
- Gaggero, Alberto A.
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2019
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