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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Spoke & hub networks made a lot of money 20 years ago, but not now. Why? What would be interested is a longitudinal study to correlate route network structure, market conditions, profits... Doug Bryan [log in to unmask] http://pavg.stanford.edu/people/bryan -- SNA, OD, and technology development consulting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valdis Krebs" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Network analysis of airlines > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > Current issue of Scientific American, May 2003, addresses the very basics of this issue in the "Scale-Free Networks" article by Barabasi and Bonabeau. > > It would be interesting to see the differece in network structures/metrics between the profitable and 'near-bankrupt' airlines... although I'm sure their success, or lack of it, is not based purely on their network topology. > > The basic hub-and-spoke data is in the back of each airlines' in-flight magazine, just got to find some poor schlep to enter it all! The actual customers flying each link, during various time periods, is probably a highly guarded secret by each airline, so you would have to guestitmate by counting the number of scheduled flights on each link, or something like that. > > Good Luck! Let us know what you find out. > > > Valdis > > P.S. The full text of the SciAm article is only available to subscribers on-line. > > > > ---- Wolf Bob <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > > > Dear SOCNETers > > Has anyone turned social network analysis on the airline industry? Possibly > > regarding either airports or final destinations as nodes and flight segments > > or passenger volume as links? I would be interested in any related papers > > and possibly to connect with those who have done work in this area. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Bob Wolf > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > > network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send > > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.