Abstract
This paper proposes a new airport typology that might arise from the expansion of airports with dominant low cost carrier traffic. In the first part of the paper, the typologies and different airport categorizations are reviewed with examples of current taxonomies used by principal international organizations. However, none of the current airport taxonomies takes into account low cost (LCC) carriers and cannot be used to create an airport market strategy with LCC operation. The paper highlights the characteristic of LCC features, the differences between the LCC airlines, and the characteristics of secondary – low cost airports. Finally, the paper proposes a new taxonomy of airports with low cost operations based on the airport data analysis and expert panel elucidation. For identification of airports with a high share of low cost carriers, Eurocontrol 2013 data on airline types and movements were used. The novel classification of low cost airports enables management to design marketing strategies to respond to LCC dominance and its implications. The main contribution of this research is to provide a novel classification for low cost airports which is relatively new phenomenon comparing with the problems of full service carriers dominance at large airports.
Highlights
Nature is characterized by great variety, such as the diversity of plant and animal species
Typology is defined by several dictionaries as “a study or systematic classification of types that have characteristics or traits in common” (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 2016) or “a study of how things can be divided into different types” (Collins COBUILD, 2018)
Our aim was to research the influence of the low cost carriers (LCC) on the airport typology; how different shares of LCC traffic expressed in low cost airport categories could be characterised and how this could influence the airport market strategy
Summary
Nature is characterized by great variety, such as the diversity of plant and animal species. Scientists have always endeavoured to bring order to this chaos. Carl von Linné (1707–1778) is known as the father of modern taxonomy (Hansen, 2011) and typological method. Later this method was used in all other fields of research (Huutoniemi et al, 2010). According to Kazda (1985), typological method aims to specify type as a concept and on the basis of the information obtained the scientist seeks to identify the types to help categorize the acquired knowledge. Typology is defined by several dictionaries as “a study or systematic classification of types that have characteristics or traits in common” (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 2016) or “a study of how things can be divided into different types” (Collins COBUILD, 2018)
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