Virtual Airline (economics)

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This article is about the business meaning. For computer gaming groups, see Virtual Airline.

A Virtual Airline in economics refers to an airline that has outsourced as many possible operational and business functions it can but still maintains effective control of its core business^[1] . Such an airline focuses on operating a network of air services, and outsourcing non-core activities to other organizations^[2]. Contracting out services within the aviation industry has reportedly become so common that many carriers could be classed as having features of a Virtual Airline, although it is arguable whether any current carriers meet a strict definition of the term.^[3].

[edit] References

^ Flouris, Triant (2006). Designing and Executing Strategy in Aviation Management. Ashgate Publishing, 91. ISBN 0754636186.
^ Doganis, Rigas (2005). The Airline Business. Routledge, 283. ISBN 0415346150.
^ Ioannides, Dimitri (1998). The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry: A Supply-side Analysis. Routledge, 118. ISBN 0415164117.

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Outsourcing
Domberger, Simon (1998). The Contracting Organization: A Strategic Guide to Outsourcing. Oxford University Press, 146. ISBN 0198774583. “British Airways [has] lean[ed] towards becoming the first of the new general of Virtual Airlines”