The Design of Airline Route Networks | Wendover Productions
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The Design of Airline Route Networks | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202631 min

The Design of Airline Route Networks Use code "WENDOVER" at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: https://incogni.com/wendoverYoutube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductionsWriting by Sam Denby, Tristan Purdy, and Christine Benedetti Editing by Alexander Williard Animation by Austin Glass, Derek Brown, Kate Ermolenko, Gabriel Ferreras, Sara Stoltman Sound by Manni Simon and Dony Bullen Thumbnail by Simon BuckmasterAirline network visualizations courtesy and...

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United, American, and Delta Airlines offer almost exactly the same thing. Not exactly, but almost, and they do this on purpose. When one of them eliminates change fees, they all eliminate change fees. When one of them announces free Wi-Fi, they all announce free Wi-Fi.

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When one of them ups bag fees, they all up bag fees. They each offer pretty much the same legroom, pretty much the same snacks, pretty much the same lounges, pretty much the same reliability. Smaller airlines don't do this.

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They're strategically motivated to differentiate through offering a low-cost model, like the Spirit, or a unique product, like JetBlue Mint. But the bigger US airlines compete in one of the most textbook examples of an oligopolistic industry, and in oligopolistic industries, they're a strategic incentive to converge

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