Airfares Data in New Zealand Domestic Aviation Market

Tin Ho,Thanh Ngo,Tu Le,Dat Nguyen

doi:10.3390/su13168916

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168916

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Abstract

Price competition has been a growing concern of worldwide researchers and managers. In the aviation market, especially with the help from e-commerce platforms such as Expedia, TripAdvisor, and SkyScanner, airfares are now available to customers in the easiest and quickest way. It thus allows airlines to match their fares immediately and simultaneously upon any changes of their rivals, given that customer’ choices are made with regard to their incomes. This study provides a dataset on domestic airfares in New Zealand that could be useful for future studies in the fields of marketing, business and economics, transportation and aviation, or management. The dataset covers 12 trunk routes and 40 secondary routes in New Zealand from 19 September 2019 to 18 December 2019, a total of 90 days. It provides a rich dataset of more than 162,000 observations regarding the airfare, departure time, arrival time, flight duration, airline, departure airport, arrival airport, transiting airport, and so on. There are possibilities to extend the dataset (e.g., in terms of flying distance, airport characteristics, and airline characteristics) to make it be valuable for future study.

Highlights

Airfare competition and airline pricing behaviours, especially between low-cost carriers (LCCs) and full-service carriers (FSCs), have been intensively analysed [1,2,3,4,5]
It is suggested that prices of airlines can react to each other, and a dataset on airfares is important for further research in the field of social commerce, marketing, and management, among others
This dataset presented in this study consists the domestic airfares in New Zealand, mostly of Air New Zealand and Jetstar, for a total of 52 domestic routes

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Introduction

Airfare competition and airline pricing behaviours, especially between low-cost carriers (LCCs) and full-service carriers (FSCs), have been intensively analysed [1,2,3,4,5]. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8916 or (perfect) competition In this sense, New Zealand’s domestic aviation market and this dataset can be seen as a starting point of research for other complicated markets such as the US or Europe. New Zealand’s domestic aviation market and this dataset can be seen as a starting point of research for other complicated markets such as the US or Europe This dataset presented in this study consists the domestic airfares in New Zealand, mostly of Air New Zealand and Jetstar, for a total of 52 domestic routes. It is useful for researchers in the fields of business and economics, transportation, and aviation, but it provides important information for (airline) managers or marketing teams, especially in understanding consumers’ behaviours. It can be used to explore price discrimination for various consumer incomes, and consumer preferences or consumer behaviours according to their incomes

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