Author, as appears in the article.: Ginieis M; Hernández-Lara AB; Sánchez-Rebull MV

Department: Gestió d'Empreses

URV's Author/s: Ginieis Iribarren, Matías Carlos / Hernandez Lara, Ana Beatriz / Sánchez Rebull, María Victoria

Keywords: Profitability Labour productivity Economic performance Costs Aviation Airlines

Abstract: © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. It is important to examine profitability in the aviation sector and the factors that may affect it, due to their relevance for the airlines’ survival. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of three internal business characteristics, namely labour costs, labour productivity and company size, on airlines’ profitability, considering the airline type as a moderating effect. We have collected data of 190 European airlines during a 10-year period (2004–2013) which allowed us to create an unbalanced panel of 1,364 observations. Four types of airlines are considered. Results show that cost per employee has a positive influence on economic performance, especially for major carriers and regional carriers. It is also confirmed that the carrier type influences the relationship between labour costs, labour productivity and company size on the one hand, and economic returns on the other. These findings are relevant as they improve our understanding of economic profitability in different airlines’ types.

Thematic Areas: Engineering, aerospace Ciencias sociales Aerospace engineering

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: anabeatriz.hernandez@urv.cat mariavictoria.sanchez@urv.cat matias.ginieis@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-8110-9328 0000-0003-0326-5699 0000-0002-9920-4104 0000-0003-4459-2899

Record's date: 2023-02-26

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/Aviation/article/view/12539

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Aviation. 24 (4): 157-168

APA: Ginieis M; Hernández-Lara AB; Sánchez-Rebull MV (2020). Influence of airlines’ size and labour costs on profitability. Aviation, 24(4), 157-168. DOI: 10.3846/aviation.2020.12539

Article's DOI: 10.3846/aviation.2020.12539

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications