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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.

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. The full range of his  aviation experience is described under “Aviation Experience”. 

Over  the years Horan has published a range of articles on airline  competition, the evolution of airline business models, airpolitical  issues, mergers and industry consolidation. His 2010 Transportation Law  Journal article “Double Marginalization and the Counter-Revolution  Against Liberal Airline Competition” documents how the DOT abandoned its  longstanding market-friendly, pro-consumer policies in order to drive a  radical consolidation of international aviation into a permanent  cartel.

He  has testified on merger and competitive issues before the United States  Congress and the Department of Transportation has been frequently  quoted in newspaper, television and industry trade journal pieces on  aviation, and has led multiple graduate school seminars on airline  competition. Copies of his testimony, articles and seminars can be  downloaded at the “Aviation Publications” tab. 

Horan’s  strong knowledge of the economics of transport competition and  regulation allowed him to demonstrate that Uber is incapable--now or in  the future--of earning sustainable profits under competitive market  conditions, that Uber is significantly less efficient that the  traditional taxi operators it has been driving out of business, and that  all of Uber's growth to date depended on unsustainable  multi-billion-dollar subsidies. His Uber analysis through mid-2017 was  incorporated into his Transportation Law Journal article “Will the  Growth of Uber Increase Economic Welfare?” That article and more recent  analysis of Uber’s financial performance and competitive economics can  be downloaded at the “Uber” tab. 

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

email: horanaviation@gmail.com

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