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| After passage of the ADA, the government concerned itself only with which of the following aspects of airlines and their operations? |
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| only in feilds of aviation saftey and international relations. (ATC) |
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| Under economic theory, a deregulated airline market should lead to: |
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| free market industry should make airline seats adhere to commodity supply and demand principles,and reduced prices. |
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| What role did the CAB have after the ADA was enacted |
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| The CAB was phased out in 1981, fully ceased in 1984 so nothing |
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The responsibility for the safety aspects of airlines is held by the __________ |
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| A professor of economics at Cornell University who helped create the airline deregulation policy |
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| Committee hearings were held in the U.S. Senate on proposals for deregulating the airlines. Who was its chairman? |
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| Intrastate vs. interstate airline service |
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Intrastate- operates only within one state CAB has no authority,regulations come from the state. start of Southwest airlines in texas
Interstate-Regulated by the CAB state to state, American Airlines |
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| “De Facto” deregulation involved all but which of the following CAB activities? |
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1.the loosening of the restrictions on charter operations
2.Approval of Texas international's peanut fares as a competitve response to Southwest charter operations
3.Approval of American Airlines "super saver fares" that allowed the first c-mingling of discount fares with full fare passengers on the same flight |
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| The inauguration of “peanut fares” on Texas International routes: |
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| Was a competitive response to Southwest chartes low fares. CAB reduced reg fares by 50% |
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| The case of NLRB vs. Bildisco |
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the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984 and legislation enacted in response to that decision the same year, there are specific standards in place for determining what modifications will be made to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The employer must make a proposal that would modify the CBA as necessary to make reorganization possible. The employer is expected to apply to the court for relief from the CBA's terms only if that proposal has been made and rejected without good cause
Bildisco won..
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| Pan American-importance to the U.S. airline industry: |
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| developed the international routes for american air carriers, reoresented America as the "chosen instrument", |
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| Pan American acquired domestic airline routes as a result of: |
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| reasons the RLA was applied to airlines? |
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| both systems carried passengers and frieght traffic in interstate commerce, across state lines, coast to coast, quasi-public utilities obligated to conduct their operations in manner consistent with the public interest. Both capable of causing severe disrupttion to the nations comerce by labor management disagreement and work stoppages |
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| What is the name of the federal agency that is charged with administering the RLA? |
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| NMB , National mediation board |
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| Railroad style unionism, to some extent, has carried over into labor relations between airline management and airline unions. Which best describes this type of unionism? |
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| In 1977, just before deregulation, the rank and file of the largest 19 airlines in the U.S. were represented by unions EXCEPT: |
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| Delta and Southern Airways |
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| The powers of union before and after deregulation |
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Unions before deregulation had more power/ allowed to have more hostile attitudes
After deregulation they had less power less strikes and more negotiations |
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| an agreement between the largest 9 trunk carriers to pay in to a fund that would recover losses from strikes, self-insured strike fund. |
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| The disparity between wages of employees of incumbent airlines and those of employees of new entrant airlines: |
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| new entrant airline unions would reject wage concessions and match startups of est. airlines, because it would be to severe, this helped new airlines start up and have the ability to compete with other airlines |
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| 737s—three person/ two person crews |
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pilot,co-pilot, flight engineer
pilot,co-pilot
people were mad about empployees going to lose their jobs over this, (FE's made co-pilots.....) |
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| The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. |
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| Forbids strikes for civil service workers |
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| The Professional Air Traffic Controllers organization walked off jobs on august 3, president reagan annouced any striker who did not return to their post in 48 hours would be let go permantley and no reemployment chance,11,000 people were let go,875 returned to work by the deadline, 3million as impouinded to pay damages and fines and criminal proceddings were commenced in federal court |
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Safety statistics show that U.S. airlines are safer to fly today than before deregulation. This is attributable
to:
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a. The technological advances made in equipment and engines.
b. The fact that government’s role in matters of safety was not deregulated.
c. The increase in the number of pure jet air transport aircraft.
d. All of the above |
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| What is meant by the “contestability” of airline markets? |
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In economics, the theory of contestable markets, associated primarily with its 1982 proponent William J. Baumol, holds that there exist markets served by a small number of firms, which are nevertheless characterized by competitive equilibria (and therefore desirable welfare outcomes) because of the existence of potential short-term entrants.[1]
A perfectly contestable market has three main features. It is a market that has -
- No entry or exit barriers
- No sunk costs
- Access to the same level of technology (to incumbent firms and new entrants)
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| Barriers to entry for startup airlines |
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| inexperienced management, unrealistic business plans, lack of solid finiancial backing, public debuts about airline reliablity, and poorly concived pricing structures |
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| One of the primary purposes of code-sharing is: |
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| Keeps customers from using competitor airlines at layovers, helps airlines gain money and access to markets where they couldnt normally make money if they flew their own planes and pilots to those countrys |
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| The Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. and prohibited abusive monopolies |
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| The “failing airlines” doctrine was used to: |
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| This describes the CAB promoting the merging of smaller airlines with bigger airlines to prevent bankruptcies |
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| Beginning in 1989, jurisdiction for all air carrier mergers fell to the: |
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| The competitive response of incumbent airlines is more aggressive against: |
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| Entrant airlines and new compition by using predatory pricing to keep a competitive advantage |
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| During the 1990s, which was the largest source of airport funding for capital development? |
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Airport improvement programs(21-4090...)
General Airport Revenue Bonds (36-7090...) |
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| Which of the following gate leasing arrangements are the most anticompetitive? |
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| Exclusive agreements, only that paticular airline is able to operat in and out of the gate |
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| Privatization of airports is more extensive: |
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| outside of the United States |
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| AIR-21 is a statute designed to: |
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| to alleviate many of the problems in aviation infrastructure due to deregulation |
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| The first comprehensive airport noise regulation statute was: |
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| Aircraft Noise Abatement Act of 1968 |
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The first international conference convened to deal with the issues relating to international civil aviation
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The first international civil aviation conference, held in 1910 and attended by European governments only, since transoceanic flight was then regarded as no more than a wild dream, was a failure. Almost another decade elapsed before an international convention, signed in Paris in 1919, created the International Commission for Air Navigation
ICAO created April 1947 after Chicago convention after ratified by 26 countries |
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| is an international convention which regulates liability for ionternational carriage of persons, luggage, or goods performed by aircraft for reward signed in 1929 ammended in 1955 |
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| The Montreal Convention of 1999 replaced: |
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| The United States and the United Kingdom aviation bilateral agreements |
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| the US and UK aviation bilateral agreements in 1946,agreement promoted trade it is modified from the open skies agreement and bermuda agreement |
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| is an international policy concept that calls for the liberalization of the rules and regulations of the international aviation industry especially commercial avaition in order to create a free market enviorments for the airline industry 5 freedoms |
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