Acta academica karviniensia 2015, 15(3):110-120 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2015.036

CAUSES AND FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FLIGHT DELAYS IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Martina Zámková1, Martin Prokop2
1 Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Email:martina.zamkova@centrum.cz
2 Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Email:martin.prokop@vspj.cz

The article aims to analyse causes of flight delays in Czech Republic and to assess their financial consequences for airlines. Methods of multidimensional statistics were used for data processing, specifically independence tests in contingency tables and correspondence analysis. We see the biggest savings in assurance of excellence technical condition of aircraft. We would recommend idea of alternative aircraft (without flight plan) especially in case of long delays, of which the monitored airline has a large number and has to pay high financial amounts due to financial compensations for passengers. It is also possible according to our analysis to prevent longer delays by cooperation with flexible suppliers and appropriate form of penalties. Other causes of long delays were defined, but they can be hardly influenced, for example weather in destinations, transport of disabled people, necessity of treatment of passenger with healthy problems etc., these are delay reasons that doesn't mean necessity of paying out financial compensation, but they cause chaining of delays.

Keywords: airlines delay codes, contingency tables, correspondence analysis, Pearson chi-squared test
JEL classification: C30, R40

Received: September 23, 2015; Accepted: December 15, 2015; Published: September 30, 2015  Show citation

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Zámková M, Prokop M. CAUSES AND FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FLIGHT DELAYS IN CZECH REPUBLIC. Acta academica karviniensia. 2015;15(3):110-120. doi: 10.25142/aak.2015.036.
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