Browsing by Author "Jimenez, Edgar"

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    A comparative strategic analysis of China Airlines and EVA Air
    (Elsevier, 2022-11-18) Ellis, Darren; Jimenez, Edgar
    The two biggest airlines in Taiwan – China Airlines and EVA Air – face a wide range of similar strategic opportunities and challenges, while also pursuing considerably different strategic priorities in some key areas. This paper conducts a comparative strategic analysis of these two airlines by considering the key success factors (KSFs) of fleet mix and size, international partnerships and cooperation, network scope and global reach, and brand awareness and loyalty. Despite geopolitical restrictions, both carriers have developed sizable fleets, networks and partnerships with a global ambition, effectively creating a duopoly that controls half of the passenger market and almost two-thirds of the cargo market in Taiwan. Their brands are recognized outside Taiwan, although EVA Air enjoys slightly better perception of quality by rating companies and passengers. Yet, external realities have greater potential to determine each airline's future strategic trajectory, rather than internal KSFs. Both airlines help to illustrate the global connectivity that the airline industry can foster and promote, and each provides a counterbalance to regional tensions and divisions by doing so.
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    Creating the future airport passenger experience: IMHOTEP
    (Caltek, 2020-09-18) Mota, Miguel Mujica; Scala, Paolo; Herranz, Ricardo; Schultz, Michael; Jimenez, Edgar
    As the airport of the future is expected to become a multimodal connection platform, one of the main challenges is to create the conditions for travelers to reach their destination by the most efficient and sustainable combination of modes. This will, furthermore, allow the airport and its surrounding region to make a better use of their resources. In this context, the H2020-SESAR-2019-2 funded project IMHOTEP, aims at developing a concept of operations and a set of data analysis methods, predictive models and decision support tools that allow information sharing, common situational awareness and real-time collaborative decision-making between airports and ground transport stakeholders. In this paper, the IMHOTEP concepts are presented. The focus is on the project proposed objectives and methodologies applied. Finally, the project expected results and limitations will be discussed.
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    Enabling real-time collaborative decision-making between airport and surface transport operations
    (Elsevier, 2023-12-13) Jimenez, Edgar; Blasco-Puyuelo, Juan; Alcolea, Ruben; Salamanca, Raquel; Rothe, Henrik; Moxon, Rich
    Current developments in collaborative decision-making in the air transport context are restricted to airport and air traffic management operations and stakeholders, disregarding the relevance of airport access and egress in the door-to-door journey for passengers. This paper summarises the IMHOTEP (Integrated Multimodal Airport Operations for Efficient Passenger Flow Management) concept of operations, which extends Airport Collaborative Decision-Making implementations by incorporating surface access. Enhanced situational awareness achieved by extending the monitoring of passenger flows beyond the airport boundaries improve resource allocation and last-minute capacity utilization. It also facilitates the identification of passenger connectivity requirements in terms of links to ground services.
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    Reinterpreting the role of primary and secondary airports in low-cost carrier expansion in Europe
    (Elsevier, 2020-08-25) Jimenez, Edgar; Suau-Sanchez, Pere
    This paper discusses the long-term effects of low-cost carrier (LCC) presence at European airports and identifies the airports that have benefited the most from LCC consolidation since 2001. The research uses ‘LCC Market Share’, in terms of seats, to measure the relative importance of LCCs within each airport; and introduces ‘EU LCA Rank’ as a normalised metric of the capacity share of every airport in the European low-cost segment. It evaluates the trends between 2001 and 2019 in all airports in Europe using OAG supply information (seats by carrier). Results show two different phases of LCC rise in Europe, 2001 to 2008 and 2009 to 2019, marked by the effects of the financial crisis of the Great Recession. The analysis highlights the role that LCCs have played in boosting the growth of both primary and secondary airports. Indeed, despite the fact that LCCs have put many smaller airports on the European map, during the second phase of the period of analysis growth has been more significant for major airports and for a few airports that were keen to support the earliest development of LCCs. In that sense, this paper contributes to a better understanding of the historical and contemporary dynamics in European LCCs choice of airports and, in particular, the long-term effects that this disruptive business model have had for airports. This is increasingly important in the context of a potential recovery path from the effects of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper also attempts to settle academic discussions that attach LCC development to secondary/regional airports disregarding the wide range of strategies used by airlines and airports.
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    Vision 2030 and prospects for network airlines in Saudi Arabia
    (Elsevier, 2023-12-28) Jimenez, Edgar; Ellis, Darren; Uyan, Berkcan
    The air transport industry in Saudi Arabia is experiencing rapid growth of late, fuelled in large part by the Kingdom's Vision 2030 aspirations and national development plan. This ambitious national vision seeks to diversify the Kingdom's economy, and in the process, develop and expand a wide range of industry and public sectors. Central to these plans is air transport, including not only the building of new airports and related transport infrastructure, along with expanding the wider travel and hospitality sectors, but also the launch of a new network airline in 2025 – Riyadh Air. This new airline will join current national flag carrier Saudia, and together they will play central roles in growing both the domestic and international air markets in the Kingdom, mainly out of the two main hubs Riyadh Airport (RUH) and Jeddah Airport (JED). The paper here aims to assess this coming network carrier duopoly, including the future prospects for both airlines as they seek to compete in a region, and indeed globally, against well-established legacy and flag carriers. Evidently, the future of network airlines in KSA could very well shape and determine prospects for the industry more generally for decades to come.