Voci_1_AeCo

extremely strict and severe

In 2013, Ryanair's notoriously straight-talking CEO famously pledged to be nicer to customers, recognizing its convoluted booking options and draconian baggage limits were putting passengers off.
 

to deal with (something bad or unpleasant) in a direct way

And now Ryanair must face up to what many other European airlines have spent decades navigating: trying to balance business interests with union demands.

the power to make someone do what you want

Passengers are going to think twice about booking Ryanair, particularly if pilot and cabin crew have the leverage to obtain higher salaries.
 

famous for something bad

In 2013, Ryanair's notoriously straight-talking CEO famously pledged to be nicer to customers, recognizing its convoluted booking options and draconian baggage limits were putting passengers off.

to promise seriously and publicly to do something

In 2013, Ryanair's notoriously straight-talking CEO famously pledged to be nicer to customers, recognizing its convoluted booking options and draconian baggage limits were putting passengers off.

to try to appear brave or calm

Ryanair tried to put on a brave face and accept a decision that had been effectively taken out of its hands.

to cook slowly at a temperature near boiling, or to cook something in this way

The episode brought to the fore tensions over pay and working conditions that had been simmering within the workforce for years.

to quickly increase to a high level

Soaring fuel prices are a problem for everyone.

to continuously become worse, more, or less

The unexpected situation for Ryanair's management, in the carrier's spiraling summer of discontent, is quickly becoming a reality

Open, honest, and direct in speech or writing; frank

In 2013, Ryanair's notoriously straight-talking CEO famously pledged to be nicer to customers, recognizing its convoluted booking options and draconian baggage limits were putting passengers off.

This statement is an allusion to a famous quote from Shakespeare's Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.

The unexpected situation for Ryanair's management, in the carrier's spiraling summer of discontent, is quickly becoming a reality.

- The connectivity performance offered from an airport (airport connectivity) is made up of all connections offered from the airport either direct or indirect via an intermediate hub. Hubconnectivity represents the connectivity offered via (with a transfer at) the airport

Changing airline network behaviour has consequences for airport connectivity.

with so many vehicles or people that it is difficult to move around

The current allocation mechanism of slots through grandfather rights is a barrier to entry at congested airports.

Airline deregulation is the process of removing government-imposed entry and price restrictions on airlines affecting, in particular, the carriers permitted to serve specific routes. In the United States, the term usually applies to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. A new form of regulation has been developed to some extent to deal with problems such as the allocation of the limited number of slots available at airports.

The starting point of the study was the notion that deregulation of air transport markets may have severe implications for the way airlines configure their networks in space and time.

if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else

The mains hubs of British Airways, air France and Lufthansa became connection complexes attracting a disproportionate share of intercontinental traffic.

A flag carrier is a transportation company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations. The term also refers to any carrier that is or was owned by a government, even long after their privatization when preferential rights or privileges continue.

The era of bilateralism gave birth to the rise of the European flag carrier.

A grandfather clause (or grandfather policy) is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. Those exempt from the new rule are said to have grandfather rights or acquired rights, or to have been grandfathered in.

The current allocation mechanism of slots through grandfather rights is a barrier to entry at congested airports.

The spoke-hub distribution paradigm is a form of transport topology optimization in which traffic planners organize routes as a series of "spokes" that connect outlying points to a central "hub". Simple forms of this distribution/connection model compare with point-to-point transit systems, in which each point has a direct route to every other point, and which modeled the principal method of transporting passengers and freight until the 1970s.

The adoption of spatially and temporally concentrated hub-and-spoke networks is one of the most striking impacts of deregulation.

a possible effect or result

The starting point of the study was the notion that deregulation of air transport markets may have severe implications for the way airlines configure their networks in space and time.

knowledge or understanding of something

The starting point of the study was the notion that deregulation of air transport markets may have severe implications for the way airlines configure their networks in space and time.

Point-to-point transit refers to a transportation system in which a plane, bus, or train travels directly to a destination, rather than going through a central hub. This differs from the spoke-hub distribution paradigm in which the transportation goes to a central location where passengers change to another train, bus, or plane to reach their destination.

The 1990s saw the rise of the low-cost carrier, dedicated to serving point-to-point markets only. [...] However, only part of the smaller airpoerts reaped the benefits from this concentration trend.

The unofficial sixth freedom combines the third and fourth freedoms and is the right to carry passengers or cargo from a second country to a third country by stopping in one's own country.

Most flag carriers focussed on their national origin-destination markets, while few carriers managed to develop their home bases as sixth freedom hubs.

relating to the size, shape, and position of things, and the relation of objects to each other in space

The adoption of spatially and temporally concentrated hub-and-spoke networks is one of the most striking impacts of deregulation.

to use a situation so that you get benefit from it (even if it is wrong or unfair to do this)

Volatility, uncertainty and risk can be exploited with the right approach to airport planning.

to be the origin of something

The era of bilateralism gave birth to the rise of the European flag carrier.

to happen or to become real

There is no guarantee that the projected traffic will materialize.

to cause or force (someone) to make a definite statement or decision about something

Bilateral regulation of air services to extra-EU destinations continued to pin the flag carriers down to the airports of their home country.

If you reap the benefits or the rewards of something, you enjoy the good things that happen as a result of it

The 1990s saw the rise of the low-cost carrier, dedicated to serving point-to-point markets only. [...] However, only part of the smaller airpoerts reaped the benefits from this concentration trend.

to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems

Airport managers must increasingly safeguard the economic performance of their airport.

a tendency to change quickly and unpredictably

Volatility, uncertainty and risk can be exploited with the right approach to airport planning.