ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a quantitative analysis of the geography of business air travel in Europe. It discusses two separate, but interrelated issues. First section presents an overview of the geography of business air travel in Europe. Second section outlines an analytical framework that allows for meaningful longitudinal analyses/comparisons of the spatiality of economy class and business class traffic in the face of overall changes in aviation networks. The chapter proceeds under the hypothesis that it is possible to derive meaningful measures of the spatiality of business travel. The empirical analyses in it are based on Association of European Airlines (AEA)-datasets, which we were able to obtain through the cooperation of an airline. The chapter explores how one's framework can be used for gauging/comparing the shifting spatiality of business air travel networks. The continuous development of the air transport industry leads to a number of questions regarding the changing spatial configuration of airline networks at large.
