Understanding air travellers' trade-offs between connecting flights and surface access characteristics

This paper reports on a study which seeks to improve understanding of how people choose between different kinds of flight at competing airports, and how their choices are affected by access conditions. In particular, using stated choice data collected in Scotland, it investigates whether improving surface access to regional airports that are in relatively close proximity to one another (Glasgow and Edinburgh) leads people to avoid taking indirect flights from their nearest airport in favour of direct flights from an alternative airport. In line with expectations, our estimation results from Cross-Nested Logit models show strong aversion to connecting flights, resulting in a willingness to either pay higher fares for direct flights or accept non-trivial increases in access time. For the latter, even without the potential new direct rail link between the two airports, current access times are such that a scenario where direct flights were only available at the non-home airport, a substantial share of passengers would choose to travel from the alternative airport.

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  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699713001117
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699713001117
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/31005945
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission by Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Johnson, Daniel
  • Hess, Stephane
  • Matthews, Bryan
• Publication Date: 2014-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 70-77
• Serial:
  • Journal of Air Transport Management
  • Volume: 34
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0969-6997
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09696997

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air travel; Logits; Stated preferences; Travel behavior; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Connecting flights; Direct flights; Nested logit models; Willingness to pay
• Geographic Terms: Scotland
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01504976
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 27 2014 10:45AM