Editorial: Special Issue on Selected Topics on Air Transport Economics

The Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), since 1995, has provided a forum for aviation researchers and, each year, its World Conference attracts participants from all around the world. In 2013, on 26–29 June, this event was convened in Bergamo, Italy, by the University of Bergamo. The venue in this beautiful city inspired active discussion and networking, but one measure of its success is that the authors represented 37 countriesspread across the globe. Another is that they presented 266 papers on a variety of aviation topics. The ATRS is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), and in 2013 it was time for the WCTRS triennial World Conference. This was held on 15–18 July at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during which the ATRS organised several sessions devoted to air transport topics. These two world conferences in 2013 generated a wealth of research material and, in this special issue of the International Journal of Aviation Management, we have selected nine papers which, in various ways, reflect a theme of applied air transport economics