ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT EQUIPMENT PURCHASING PRACTICES OF REPRESENTATIVE AIR CARRIERS

The process through which representative air carriers decide whether or not to purchase flight equipment was investigated as well as their practices and policies in retiring surplus aircraft. An analysis of the flight equipment investment decision process in ten airlines shows that for the airline industry as a whole, the flight equipment investment decision is in a state of transition from a wholly informal process in earliest years to a much more organized and structured process in the future. Individual air carriers are in different stages with respect to the formality and sophistication associated with the flight equipment investment decision.

• Corporate Authors:

  Gellman Research Associates, Incorporated

  100 West Avenue
  Jenkintown, PA  United States  19046
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 81 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Aircraft industry; Aircraft operations; Airlines; Civil aviation; Decision making; Equipment; Investments; Management; Passenger aircraft; Policy; Procurement; Producers surplus; Service life
• Uncontrolled Terms: Inventory management; Replacing; Surplus
• Old TRIS Terms: Aircraft equipment; Airline operations; Management methods; Procurement policy
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Design; Economics; Policy; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00166681
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NASA-CR-154619 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: NASW-2969
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 1978 12:00AM