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Business travel stress and the moderating effect of corporate aircraft utilization on employee Well-Being: Business aviation from a stakeholder perspective 商务旅行压力及公务机使用对员工幸福感的调节作用：利益相关者视角下的公务机

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102912

Bas de Bruijn, Annelies Oosterhoff, Bas Kodden

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Electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft selection for ultra-short-haul routes: fuzzy AHP approach 超短程航线电动垂直起降飞机选择：模糊层次分析法

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102909

Slavica Dožić , Jovana Kuljanin , Danica Babić , Milica Kalić , Jordi Pons-Prats

{"title":"Electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft selection for ultra-short-haul routes: fuzzy AHP approach","authors":"Slavica Dožić , Jovana Kuljanin , Danica Babić , Milica Kalić , Jordi Pons-Prats","doi":"10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The analysis and understanding of the environmental effects of air transport has been attracting the attention of academia and the industry for more than 20 years. It is also evident that this environmental concern has grown in recent years, with a special focus on ultra-short-haul flights. In light of a new restriction recently introduced in some EU countries related to ultra-short-haul flight bans, and the recent developments in electric propulsion technologies, the electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) offers a possibility for airlines to regain these routes. Considering the route requirements, together with the performance of electric new vehicles, the main objective of this paper is to select the new eVTOL aircraft, which could be exploited instead of conventional aircraft types. The proposed approach is based on the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) in combination with logarithmic fuzzy preference programming (LFPP) to derive priorities from expert judgments. The analysis considers operational and performance requirements for six eVTOLs candidate, evaluates their suitability through multi-criteria decision making, and examines how sensitive the results are to changes in the weighting of criteria. To illustrate the practical potential of eVTOL adoption, two banned European routes are analyzed. The findings highlight both the opportunities and limitations of integrating eVTOLs into short-haul networks and provide directions for future research in sustainable air transport. Additionally, the FAHP-derived solution, is consistently confirmed across all stakeholder groups as the most appropriate alternative.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14925,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Air Transport Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102909"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating risk-based hazard corridors in air traffic controller decisions during space launch failures 航天发射失败时空中交通管制员决策中基于风险的危险走廊评估

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102904

Wei Zhou , Zhengyi Wang , Sameer Alam , Leo Julius Materne , Thorsten Mühlhausen , Daniel Delahaye

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Flight centric complexity and allocation of flights to controllers 以飞行为中心的复杂性和分配给控制器的飞行

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102906

Patrice Zombré , Andréas Guitart , Daniel Delahaye , Oludolapo A. Olanrewaju , Fabio Krykhtine , Felix Mora-Camino

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At the crossroads of competition, cooperation, and integration: The airline M&A 在竞争、合作与整合的十字路口：航空公司并购

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102903

Young Kwan Ko, Ju Hyeong Park, Young Dae Ko

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A life cycle assessment of electric towing vehicle routing problem with time windows: Three-stage linear charging and partial charging strategy 带时间窗的电动拖曳车辆路径问题生命周期评估：三阶段线性充电和部分充电策略

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102908

Danwen Bao , Jiajun Chu , Yuting Chen , Yu Yan

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Assessing public acceptance of urban air mobility: Behavioral insights 评估公众对城市空中交通的接受程度：行为洞察

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102907

Fatemeh Nazari , Mohamadhossein Noruzoliaee , Khandker Nurul Habib

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Integrating FMEA and HFACS to assess the risk to airport operations 整合FMEA和HFACS，评估机场运营风险

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102902

James J.H. Liou , Chih-Wei Chien , Fang-Chi Chang , Yen-Ching Chuang

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Flying high or saying goodbye? passenger incivility and flight attendants’ turnover intention: A serial mediation model of surface acting and emotional exhaustion 高飞还是告别？乘客不文明行为与空乘人员离职倾向：表面行为与情绪耗竭的序列中介模型

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102905

Xin Chen , Kei Wei Chia

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Unveiling the psychological drivers of home-country Bias: Implications for passengers' behaviours toward national and foreign airlines 揭示母国偏见的心理驱动因素：对乘客对国内和外国航空公司行为的影响

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Journal of Air Transport Management Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102891

Hany Ragab , Ana I. Polo-Peña , Abeer A. Mahrous

{"title":"Unveiling the psychological drivers of home-country Bias: Implications for passengers' behaviours toward national and foreign airlines","authors":"Hany Ragab , Ana I. Polo-Peña , Abeer A. Mahrous","doi":"10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite strong field evidence highlighting the significant role of home-country bias in airline travel markets, academic and empirical research into its underlying psychological drivers remains limited. In light of ongoing geopolitical and economic disruptions, this study seeks to examine key psychological antecedents of home-country bias—specifically, passengers' national identity and ethnocentrism—and their influence on passengers' behaviours toward national versus foreign airlines. Additionally, the study investigates how passengers' perceptions of price fairness can moderate the potential effects of these constructs on passengers' actual purchase behaviour. Data were collected from 411 international passengers and analyzed using CFA and SEM via AMOS software. The findings indicate that national identity and ethnocentrism exert distinct and significant influences on passengers' behaviours toward both national and foreign airlines. Moreover, passengers' perceptions of price fairness were found to moderate the impact of these psychological factors on actual purchase decisions. The study concludes with outlining its theoretical contributions to the travel and hospitality literature and implications for airline service marketers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14925,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Air Transport Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 102891"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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