Capital structure of airlines

Estrutura de capital de empresas aéreas

The study examines financially 24 civil aviation companies. All of them are public companies with shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, of which three are European, 4 are located in Latin American countries, two Asian, and others based in United States, with total annual revenues around 200 billion dollars. The analysis, covering five years of financial publications from airlines, approach capital structure variables such as operating cash flow, cash flow to shareholders, leverage and profitability ratios. The authors have observed that there were ten occurrences of unfunded liabilities in the annual publications analyzed. Two companies had just third parties capital from 2004 until 2006 and four airlines had no equity shareholder in the balance sheet. Among the evidences found, one stands in relation to operating margin, which suggests there aren’t economies of scale, with a consequential reduction of costs and operating expenses for companies that get more revenue, because it is precisely among those companies that the highest incidence of negative operating margins are found.

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  http://www.pesquisaemtransportes.net.br/relit/index.php/relit/article/view/jv5n4p13/pdf_28
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission of the Brazilian Transportation Planning Society (BTPS)
• Authors:
  • Sousa, Márcio Pereira
  • Pires, Heloisa Márcia
• Publication Date: 2011-10

Language

• English
• Portuguese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 240-259
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Literature
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Brazilian Transport Planning Society
  • ISSN: 2238-1031
  • Serial URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=2238-1031&lng=en&nrm=iso

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airlines; Business administration; Cash flow; Civil aviation; Earnings; Equity (Finance); Financial capital; Liabilities; Market share
• Geographic Terms: Asia; Europe; Latin America; United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Finance; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01493127
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 2013 2:06AM