1st Edition

The Airline Industry – A Comprehensive Overview Dynamic Trends and Transformations

By John Frankie O'Connell Copyright 2026
640 Pages 160 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

640 Pages 160 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

640 Pages 160 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent years, airlines have faced unprecedented financial and operational uncertainties, not only in the wake of COVID-19 but across the industry. Their responses provide valuable lessons for the future – for airlines, for related industries, and for all sectors that find unexpected upheaval suddenly in their path. As a truly global business, the airline industry offers countless lessons in... Read more

Foreword: Orbis Flying Eye Hospital; Acknowledgements; How the author of this book got into aviation; Author biography; Lists of figures; List of tables; List of acronyms; Glossary; Foreword  Sean Doyle; Foreword Alan Joyce; Foreword  John Slattery; Foreword Anming Zhang; Foreword Nick Fox; Chapter 1 The General Trend of the Global Airline Industry; Chapter 2 Deregulation, Liberalisation and Open Skies; Chapter 3 Low Cost Carriers: With a subsection on Long-Haul Low Cost Carriers; Chapter 4 Full Service Network Carriers: With a subsection on Regional Airlines; Chapter 5 Airline Operating Costs; Chapter 6 Airline Marketing; Chapter 7 Ancillary Revenues; Chapter 8 Airline Alliances, Joint Ventures and Equity Partnerships; Chapter 9 Air Cargo; Chapter 10 Environmental Impact and Sustainability in the Airline Industry; Chapter 11 Airport Management Anne Graham; Index 

Biography

John Frankie O’Connell is Reader in Air Transport Management at the University of Surrey. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer at the Centre of Air Transport Management at Cranfield University, while he has also worked for Boeing and for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Frankie is donating ALL royalties earned from this book to the charity Orbis Flying Eye Hospital.