Virtual Airline (economics)
- Virtual Airline (economics)
A Virtual Airline in economics refers to an airline that has outsourced as many possible operational and business functions it can but still maintains effective control of its core business [cite book
title=Designing and Executing Strategy in Aviation Management
last=Flouris |first=Triant
url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=CJXshJc_IpIC
year=2006
publisher=Ashgate Publishing
isbn=0754636186
pages=91 ] . Such an airline focuses on operating a network of air services, and outsourcing non-core activities to other organizations [cite book
title=The Airline Business
last=Doganis |first=Rigas |url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=UnVAfY8J6OcC
year=2005
publisher=Routledge
isbn=0415346150
pages=283 ] . Contracting out services within the aviation industry has reportedly become so common that many carriers could be classed as having features of a Virtual Airline, although it is arguable whether any current carriers meet a strict definition of the term. [cite book
title=The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry: A Supply-side Analysis
last=Ioannides |first=Dimitri
url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=P4PfF5LAijYC
year=1998
publisher=Routledge
isbn=0415164117
pages=118 ] .
References
ee also
* Outsourcing
* cite book
title=The Contracting Organization: A Strategic Guide to Outsourcing
last=Domberger |first=Simon
url=http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=XkqHg1N7w6YC
year=1998
publisher=Oxford University Press
isbn=0198774583
quote=British Airways [has] lean [ed] towards becoming the first of the new general of Virtual Airlines
pages=146
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