How Planepooling Could Drive a Respooling of Regional Air Services
Research fellows from George Mason University's Mercatus Center have re-evaluated options for ensuring that what they see as a tipping point moment for regional aviation in America achieves its full potential.
Some would say that all the best ideas get recycled periodically. Ride-sharing, planepooling, empty legs–call these concepts what you will; in the context of air transportation they all hinge on the proverbial no-brainer notion of maximizing utilization of aircraft and their supporting assets, such as airports.
Brent Skorup and Robert Graboyes, a pair of research fellows at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, take a fresh look at these concepts in their newly published “working paper,” entitled Planepooling and Air Taxis for Post-Covid Aviation, which also channels some of economist E.F. Schumacher’s "small is beautiful" ideas from the 1970s. The libertarian think-tank was founded and is funded by the Koch Family Foundation.
