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ished carriers which tend to have a higher cost base as a result profitability in a deregulated market is uneven for most airlines these forces have caused some major airlines to go out of business in addition to most of the poorly established new entrants in the united states the airline industry is dominated by four large firms because of industry consolidation after fuel prices dropped considerably in 2015 very little of the savings were passed on to consumers 94 international edit international civil aviation organization headquarters in montreal groups such as the international civil aviation organization establish worldwide standards for safety and other vital concerns most international air traffic is regulated by bilateral agreements between countries which designate specific carriers to operate on specific routes the model of such an agreement was the bermuda agreement between the us and uk following world war ii which designated airports to be used for transatlantic flights and gave each government the authority to nominate carriers to operate routes bilateral agreements are based on the freedoms of the air a group of generalized traffic rights ranging from the freedom to overfly a country to the freedom to provide domestic flights within a country a very rarely granted right known as cabotage most agreements permit airlines to fly from their home country to designated airports in the other country some also extend the freedom to provide continuing service to a third country or to another destination in the other country while carrying passengers from overseas in the 1990s open skies agreements became more common these agreements take many of these regulatory powers from state governments and open up international routes to further competition open skies agreements have met some criticism particularly within the european union whose airlines would be at a comparative disadvantage with the united states because of cabotage restrictions economy edit this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed january 2020 learn how and when to remove this message see also aviation taxation and subsidies in 2017 4 1 billion passengers have been carried by airlines in 41 9 million commercial scheduled flights an average payload of 98 passengers for 7 75 trillion passenger kilometers an average trip of 1890 km over 45 091 airline routes served globally in 2016 air transport generated 704 4 billion of revenue in 2016 employed 10 2 million workers supported 65 5 million jobs and 2 7 trillion of economic activity 3 6 of the global gdp 95 in july 2016 the total weekly airline capacity was 181 1 billion available seat kilometers 6 9 compared to july 2015 57 6bn in asia pacific 47 7bn in europe 46 2bn in north america 12 2bn in middle east 12 0bn in latin america and 5 4bn in africa 96 top 150 airline groups 97 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 revenue bn 694 698 704 684 663 634 560 481 540 operating result bn 58 9 65 0 30 4 27 5 20 7 21 3 32 4 1 7 15 3 operating margin 8 5 9 3 4 3 4 0 3 1 3 4 5 8 0 4 2 8 net result bn 34 2 42 4 11 7 15 3 4 6 0 3 19 0 5 7 32 5 net margin 4 9 6 1 1 7 2 2 0 7 0 0 3 4 1 2 6 0 costs edit an airbus a340 600 of virgin atlantic in october 2008 virgin atlantic offered to combine its operations with bmi in an effort to reduce operating costs 98 airlines have substantial fixed and operating costs to establish and maintain air services labor fuel airplanes engines spares and parts it services and networks airport equipment airport handling services booking commissions advertising catering training aviation insurance and other costs thus all but a small percentage of the income from ticket sales is paid out to a wide variety of external providers or internal cost centers moreover the industry is structured so that airlines often act as tax collectors airline fuel is untaxed because of a series of treaties existing between countries ticket prices include a number of fees taxes and surcharges beyond the control of airlines airlines are also responsible for enforcing government regulations if airlines carry passengers without proper documentation on an international flight they are responsible for returning them back to the original country analysis of the 1992 1996 period shows that every player in the air transport chain is far more profitable than the airlines who collect and pass through fees and revenues to them from ticket sales while airlines as a whole earned 6 return on capital employed 2 3 5 less than the cost of capital airports earned 10 catering companies 10 13 handling companies 11 14 aircraft lessors 15 aircraft manufacturers 16 and global distribution companies more than 30 99 there has been continuing cost competition from low cost airlines many companies emulate southwest airlines in various respects 100 the lines between full service and low cost airlines have become blurred e g with most full service airlines introducing baggage check fees despite southwest not doing so many airlines in the u s and elsewhere have experienced business difficulty u s airlines that have declared chapter 11 bankruptcy since 1990 have included american airlines continental airlines twice delta air lines northwest airlines pan am united airlines and us airways twice where an airline has established an engineering base at an airport then there may be considerable economic advantages in using that same airport as a preferred focus or hub for its scheduled flights fuel hedging is a contractual tool used by transportation companies like airlines to reduce their exposure to volatile and potentially rising fuel costs several low cost carriers such as southwest airlines adopt this practice southwest is credited with maintaining strong business profits between 1999 and the early 2000s due to its fuel hedging policy many other airlines are replicating southwest s hedging policy to control their fuel costs 101 operating costs for us major airlines are primarily aircraft operating expense including jet fuel aircraft maintenance depreciation and aircrew for 44 servicing expense for 29 traffic 11 passenger 11 and aircraft 7 14 for reservations and sales and 13 for overheads administration 6 and advertising 2 an average us major boeing 757 200 flies 1 252 miles 2 015 km stages 11 3 block hours per day and costs 2 550 per block hour 923 of ownership 590 of maintenance 548 of fuel and 489 of crew or 13 34 per 186 seats per block hour for a boeing 737 500 a low cost carrier like southwest have lower operating costs at 1 526 than a full service one like united at 2 974 and higher productivity with 399 746 asm per day against 264 284 resulting in a unit cost of 0 38 cts asm against 1 13 cts asm 102 mckinsey observes that newer technology larger aircraft and increasingly efficient operations continually drive down the cost of running an airline from nearly 40 us cents per ask at the beginning of the jet age to just above 10 cents since 2000 those improvements were passed onto the customer due to high competition fares have been falling throughout the history of airlines 103 revenue edit diagram of an airline global distribution system airlines assign prices to their services in an attempt to maximize profitability the pricing of airline tickets has become increasingly complicated over the years and is now largely determined by computerized yield management systems because of the complications in scheduling flights and maintaining profitability airlines have many loopholes that can be used by the knowledgeable traveler many of these airfare secrets are becoming more and more known to the general public so airlines are forced to make constant adjustments most airlines use differentiated pricing a form of price discrimination to sell air services at varying prices simultaneously to different segments factors influencing the price include the days remaining until departure the booked load factor the forecast of total demand by price point competitive pricing in force and variations by day of week of departure and by time of day carriers often accomplish this by dividing each cabin of the aircraft first business and economy into a number of travel classes for pricing purposes a complicating factor is that of origin destination control o d control someone purchasing a ticket from melbourne to sydney as an example for a 200 is competing with someone else who wants to fly melbourne to los angeles through sydney on the same flight and who is willing to pay a 1400 should the airline prefer the 1400 passenger or the 200 passenger plus a possible sydney los angeles passenger willing to pay 1300 airlines have to make hundreds of thousands of similar pricing decisions daily the advent of advanced computerized reservations systems in the late 1970s most notably sabre allowed airlines to easily perform cost benefit analyses on different pricing structures leading to almost perfect price discrimination in some cases that is filling each seat on an aircraft at the highest price that can be charged without driving the consumer elsewhere the intense nature of airfare pricing has led to the term fare war to describe efforts by airlines to undercut other airlines on competitive routes through computers new airfares can be published quickly and efficiently to the airlines sales channels for this purpose the airlines use the airline tariff publishing company atpco who distribute latest fares for more than 500 airlines to computer reservation systems across the world the extent of these pricing phenomena is strongest in legacy carriers in contrast low fare carriers usually offer pre announced and simplified price structure and sometimes quote prices for each leg of a trip separately computers also allow airlines to predict with some accuracy how many passengers will actually fly after making a reservation to fly this allows airlines to overbook their flights enough to fill the aircraft while accounting for no shows but not enough in most cases to force paying passengers off the aircraft for lack of seats stimulative pricing for low demand flights coupled with overbooking on high demand flights can help reduce this figure this is especially crucial during tough economic times as airlines undertake massive cuts to ticket prices to retain demand 104 over january february 2018 the cheapest airline surveyed by price comparator rome2rio was now defunct tigerair australia with 0 06 km followed by airasia x with 0 07 km while the most expensive was charterlines inc with 1 26 km followed by buddha air with 1 18 km 105 for the iata the global airline industry revenue was 754 billion in 2017 for a 38 4 billion collective profit and should rise by 10 7 to 834 billion in 2018 for a 33 8 billion profit forecast down by 12 due to rising jet fuel and labor costs 106 the demand for air transport will be less elastic for longer flights than for shorter flights and more elastic for leisure travel than for business travel 107 airlines often have a strong seasonality with traffic low in winter and peaking in summer in europe the most extreme market are the greek islands with july august having more than ten times the winter traffic as jet2 is the most seasonal among low cost carriers with july having seven times the january traffic whereas legacy carriers are much less with only 85 115 variability 108 assets and financing edit the golden lounge of malaysia airlines at kuala lumpur international airport klia airline financing is quite complex since airlines are highly leveraged operations not only must they purchase or lease new airliner bodies and engines regularly they must make major long term fleet decisions with the goal of meeting the demands of their markets while producing a fleet that is relatively economical to operate and maintain comparably southwest airlines and their reliance on a single airplane type the boeing 737 and derivatives with the now defunct eastern air lines which operated 17 different aircraft types each with varying pilot engine maintenance and support needs a second financial issue is that of hedging oil and fuel purchases which are usually second only to labor in its relative cost to the company however with the current high fuel prices it has become the largest cost to an airline legacy airlines compared with new entrants have been hit harder by rising fuel prices partly due to the running of older less fuel efficient aircraft 76 while hedging instruments can be expensive they can easily pay for themselves many times over in periods of increasing fuel costs such as in the 2000 2005 period in view of the congestion apparent at many international airports the ownership of slots at certain airports the right to take off or land an aircraft at a particular time of day or night has become a significant tradable asset for many airlines clearly take off slots at popular times of the day can be critical in attracting the more profitable business traveler to a given airline s flight and in establishing a competitive advantage against a competing airline if a particular city has two or more airports market forces will tend to attract the less profitable routes or those on which competition is weakest to the less congested airport where slots are likely to be more available and therefore cheaper for example reagan national airport attracts profitable routes due partly to its congestion leaving less profitable routes to baltimore washington international airport and dulles international airport 109 other factors such as surface transport facilities and onward connections will also affect the relative appeal of different airports and some long distance flights may need to operate from the one with the longest runway for example laguardia airport is the preferred airport for most of manhattan due to its proximity while long distance routes must use john f kennedy international airport s longer runways airline alliances edit main article airline alliance the first airline alliance was formed in the 1930s when pan am and its subsidiary panair do brasil agreed to codeshare routes in latin america when they overlapped with each other citation needed 110 the 3 major airline alliances and the current fleet size of their home carriers excluding subsidiaries cargo and connecting partners as of september 2024 star alliance skyteam oneworld codesharing involves one airline selling tickets for another airline s flights under its own airline code an early example of this was japan airlines jal codesharing partnership with aeroflot in the 1960s on tokyo moscow flights aeroflot operated the flights using aeroflot aircraft but jal sold tickets for the flights as if they were jal flights 111 another example was the austrian sabena partnership on the vienna brussels new york jfk route during the late 60s using a sabena boeing 707 with 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