ABSTRACT
In the previous chapters the development of airline network configurations was described. The question remains why airline networks developed in the way that they did. The airline case studies in this chapter shed some light on this issue. They illustrate the changes in the spatial and temporal dimension in the networks of a number of national carriers, regional airlines and low-cost carriers in detail. The network developments of KLM, British Airways and Iberia are described most extensively, followed by nine minor case studies of regional and low-cost networks. 1
