The Evolution of Yield Management in the Airline Industry: Origins to the Last Frontier (Management for Professionals) - Hardcover

Vinod, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030704238 ISBN 13: 9783030704230

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier. Since its inception revenue management has now become an integral part of the airline business process for competitive advantage. The field has progressed from inventory control of the base fare, to managing bundles of base fare and air ancillaries, to the precise inventory control at the individual seat level. The author provides an end-to-end view of pricing and revenue management in the airline industry covering airline pricing, advances in revenue management, availability, and air shopping, offer management and product distribution, agency revenue management, impact of revenue management across airline planning and operations, and emerging technologies is travel. The target audience of this book is practitioners who want to understand the basics and have an end-to-end view of revenue management.

About this title

About the Author

Ben Vinod has worked in the travel industry for over three decades. He served as Vice President of Pricing, Yield Management, and Inventory Control at American Airlines Decision Technologies (1993 – 1999) and as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at Sabre (2008 – 2020) focused on innovation and thought leadership in pioneering advanced solutions for travel.

He is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Charter and Go.

He has published over 50 articles in academic and trade journals, is a member of AGIFORS, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. 

From the Back Cover

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier. Since its inception revenue management has now become an integral part of the airline business process for competitive advantage. The field has progressed from inventory control of the base fare, to managing bundles of base fare and air ancillaries, to the precise inventory control at the individual seat level. The author provides an end-to-end view of pricing and revenue management in the airline industry covering airline pricing, advances in revenue management, availability, and air shopping, offer management and product distribution, agency revenue management, impact of revenue management across airline planning and operations, and emerging technologies is travel. The target audience of this book is practitioners who want to understand the basics and have an end-to-end view of revenue management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030704238
• ISBN 13: 9783030704230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 423