A supply-side categorization of airports across global multiple-airport cities and regions

Abstract

Cities and regions with multiple airports providing commercial air service are common across the globe. Within these regions, both airlines and consumers have various opportunities to provide air transport services on the one hand, and consume them on the other. While a literature addressing features of consumer behavior related to multiple airports and their regions has developed over the past two decades, very little research has taken a comprehensive global view of the regions themselves, and more specifically, of the assortment of component airports. The results of the present paper provide structure to the activities at airports within multiple airport cities and regions as of 2015. Usi..