ABSTRACT
This book explores airline network development and airport planning in the deregulated EU air transport market. Three issues are addressed: (1) How airlines in Europe have reconfigured their route networks after the deregulation of the EU air transport market; (2) how these changes affect the airport hierarchy as well as the network quality of individual airports; (3) how changes in airline networks affect the strategic planning of airport capacity. The study not only fills a gap in the current body of academic literature with respect to these issues, but also provides airports with information about ways of dealing with increasing uncertainty resulting from changing airline network behaviour.
