Contact Hubert Horan at horanaviation@gmail.com
Over his long career Hubert Horan has worked on many of the most critical issues in the field of transportation economics, including the impact of regulation and mergers on industry efficiency, and the impacts of consolidation and other industry structural changes on consumer welfare. His early career focused on railroads and urban transport and then refocused on aviation in the early 1980s.
He recently emerged as one of the leading experts on the economics of Uber, and the impacts of the major structural shifts in the taxicab industry on efficiency and overall consumer welfare. He recently published a major article on the LLM bubble which, like Uber, was manufactured by well-organized investors hoping to earn massive returns despite years of staggering losses.
Horan was directly involved with all of the major changes aviation has seen including US deregulation, European liberalization, domestic and cross-border mergers, low-cost carrier development and bankruptcy restructuring. In addition to extensive consulting work he held airline management positions with Northwest, America West, Swissair and Sabena. He is a leading expert on international airline alliances, having developed the original Northwest-KLM alliance that served as the template for all subsequent global joint ventures.
Mr. Horan graduated from Wesleyan University in 1976 with a B.A. degree and Honors in Economics. In 1980 he graduated from Yale University’s School of Management with an MPPM (MBA) degree. He is currently based in Phoenix, Arizona
Subsequent pages of this website provide
- Horan’s airline industry experience
- Downloadable copies of major aviation articles and testimony
- Downloadable copies of articles on the LLM Bubble and the economics of Uber
- Press citations