Ethical Issues in Collaboration in the Aviation Industry

Author: Ravinder, Ravi

Source: Tourism Review International, Volume 11, Number 2, 2007 , pp. 175-185(11)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

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Abstract:

This article examines competitive activity within the airline industry and in its interrelationships with other supplier firms, particularly airports. Competitive activity is reviewed using an ethics-based approach; in particular, it investigates airline-airport relationships, bilateral Air Service Agreements, and airline alliances. Recognizing the economic rationale for such relationships, this article concludes that the first two activities may pose ethical questions in that they could disbenefit key stakeholders of the communities in which they operate. The article concludes with a telos that could underpin a privatized aviation industry operating in a liberalized market environment and at the same time operating in "the public interest."

Keywords: AIRLINES; AIRPORTS; COMPETITION; AIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS; ALLIANCES; ETHICS; PUBLIC INTEREST

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/154427207783948928

Publication date: 2007-06-01

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Tourism Review International is a peer-reviewed journal that advances excellence in all fields of tourism research, promotes high-level tourism knowledge, and nourishes cultural awareness in all sectors of the tourism industry by integrating industry and academic perspectives. Its international and interdisciplinary nature ensures that the needs of those interested in tourism are served by documenting industry practices, discussing tourism management and planning issues, providing a forum for primary research and critical examinations of previous research, and by chronicling changing tourism patterns and trends at the local, regional and global scale.