<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Air transport can be considered as the most dynamic transport mode during recent decades. It is an important but also responsive indicator of global social, economic, political and cultural cooperation in different areas. For this reason, air transport is a unique source of various aspects of international relations. The principal goal of this study is an analysis of seasonality in the offer of flights in Central Europe during 2014, considering the different positions and functions of the airports within the air transport system. Ten airports from the Central European region are monitored in the analysis in terms of fluctuations in flight offers and offered destinations. A synthesis of these patterns is presented as a typology of the surveyed airports using the Ossan triangle. This paper clearly shows the different patterns of the spatial and temporal organization of air transport in Central Europe.</p></abstract>

Air transport can be considered as the most dynamic transport mode during recent decades. It is an important but also responsive indicator of global social, economic, political and cultural cooperation in different areas. For this reason, air transport is a unique source of various aspects of international relations. The principal goal of this study is an analysis of seasonality in the offer of flights in Central Europe during 2014, considering the different positions and functions of the airports within the air transport system. Ten airports from the Central European region are monitored in the analysis in terms of fluctuations in flight offers and offered destinations. A synthesis of these patterns is presented as a typology of the surveyed airports using the Ossan triangle. This paper clearly shows the different patterns of the spatial and temporal organization of air transport in Central Europe.

Anytime? Anywhere? The seasonality of flight offers in Central Europe

Department of Geography, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice,

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Air transport can be considered as the most dynamic transport mode during recent decades. It is an important but also responsive indicator of global social,...

Anytime? Anywhere? The seasonality of flight offers in Central Europe

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 26 - 37

Received: Sep 19, 2016

Accepted: Dec 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0020

Keywords
air transport, seasonality, typology of airports, Central Europe

© 2016 Stanislav Kraft et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Anytime? Anywhere? The seasonality of flight offers in Central Europe

Published Online: Feb 23, 2017

Page range: 26 - 37

Received: Sep 19, 2016

Accepted: Dec 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0020

Keywordsair transport, seasonality, typology of airports, Central Europe

© 2016 Stanislav Kraft et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
air transport, seasonality, typology of airports, Central Europe