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Publications and Testimony-Aviation
Over the years Mr. Horan has been quoted widely in the business and aviation trade press, has presented testimony to Congress and the DOT on major consolidation cases and has also published a range of articles on airline competition, airpolitical issues and mergers and consolidation. Examples include:
Articles on the Post-Covid-19 Airline Crisis
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American Affairs Journal article on the Airline Crisis
The Airline Industry after Covid-19: Value Extraction or Recovery?, American Affairs Journal, v 5 n 1 Spring 2021 pp 37-68
Naked Capitalism series on the Post-Covid-19 industry financial crisis
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Part 1--What Will It Take to Save the Airlines? 3 June 2020
Part 2--Can Collateralizing Frequent Flyer Programs Help Save the U.S. Airlines? 6 July 2020
Part 3--Airline Recovery Expectations Were Always Dreadfully Wrong 4 August 2020
Part 4--Total Paralysis Continues 14 September 2020
Part 5 – The Battle to Protect Airline Investors From Economic Reality Enters a New Phase 26 October 2020
Part 6 – U.S. Airlines Lost Over $35 Billion in 2020 22 February 2021
Part 7--Domestic US Travel Picks Up but International Demand Remains Crippled, 26 June 2021
Four-part series at ProMarket
promarket.org 5 May 2020
Why Consolidation Undermined the Airline Industry’s Ability to Recover from the Coronavirus Crisis;
The Airline Industry’s Post-2004 Consolidation Reversed 30 Years of Successful Pro-Consumer Policies;
How Alliances Carriers Established a Permanent Cartel;
How Airline Alliances Convinced Regulators That Collusion Reduces Prices
Interview with the Financial Times
Alphavideo: Izabella Kaminska, The Airline Sector is in Denial About its Imminent Collapse, 11 September 2020
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Law Review Articles and Graduate Seminars
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Double Marginalization and the Counter-Revolution Against Liberal Airline Competition, 37 Transportation Law Journal 251-291 (2010) downloadable below and from SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1743685
December 2011 Presentation to the European Aviation Club/Airneth Conference on Alliances and Global Competition: Collusive Alliances and International Competition
June 2012 Presentation to the Northwestern University Transportation Center/Kellogg School of Business: The Economics of Airline Industry Consolidation
May 2013 Presentation to the Northwestern University Transportation Center/Kellogg School of Business: United Airlines and the Transformation of Global Aviation
May 2014 Presentation to the Northwestern University Transportation Center/Kellogg School of Business: Did Airline Consolidation Improve Industry Efficiency?
Congressional/DOT Testimony
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Testimony in the DOT American Airlines-British Airways ATI Case Comment of Hubert Horan on the Joint Applicants' Claims of Public Benefits--8 January 2010
Testimony in the DOT Continental-Star Alliance ATI Case
Comment of Hubert Horan on the Department of Justice's Antitrust Immunity Comments of 26 June 2009
Congressional Testimony on the Delta-Northwest Merger Statement of Hubert Horan, “The Anti-Competitive Risks of a Delta-Northwest Merger and the Extreme Consolidation of Intercontinental Airlines”, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Aviation Subcommittee Hearings, 14 May 2008
Congressional Testimony on the United-Continental Merger
Statement of Hubert Horan, “The Anti-Competitive Impacts of a United-Continental Merger and the Consolidation of 80% of the US Aviation Market Into Just Three Competitors ”, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Aviation Subcommittee Hearings,16 June 2010
Articles on Global Airline Consolidation and the dynamics of International Airline Competition
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Is the traditional Big Hub Business Model still viable? A analysis of the crisis affecting US network carriers, Aviation Strategy 58, July 2002
What is the future of the European Flag Carrier? An analysis of the competitive dynamic between emerging European business models, Aviation Strategy 59, September 2002
United and American: are the turnaround plans viable? Airline Strategy 65, March 2003
The EU-US Open Access Area: how to realize the radical vision” An assessment of the prospects for major international airpolitical liberalization, Aviation Strategy 70, July 2003
Why the US Industry is at a stalemate Airline Strategy 88, January 2005.
Airline Consolidation: Myth and Reality: An evaluation of airline mergers in the US, Europe and China, and the trend towards consolidation, Aviation Strategy 109, November 2006
Airline Consolidation: Myth and Reality; presentation to the FAA Aviation Forecasting Conference, Washington, March 2007
An Update on Industry Consolidation and EU-US Treaty Negotiations(Aviation Strategy No.113, March 2007
Top Ten False Claims About the Need for US Airline Mergers” Airline Business, April 2008
Airline Merger Will Cripple Competition, Politico, April 23, 2008
If Consolidation occurs, it would reverse decades of airline history, Airlines International, January 2009
Consolidation and anti-competitive market power, Airneth, February 2011