- William
S. Swelbar is a Research Engineer in MIT’s
International Center for Air Transportation, where he is affiliated
with the Global Airline Industry Program and Airline Industry Consortium.
Prior to accepting his research position at MIT, Bill was President
and Managing Partner of Eclat Consulting, Inc., a firm he founded.
He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Hawaiian
(Airlines) Holdings, Inc. Over the past 20 years, he has represented
airlines, airports, investors, manufacturers, and labor groups in
a consulting role. A significant amount of his career has been spent
studying market behavior resulting from structural changes in the
competitive environment, including mergers, alliances, new entrant
carriers and new aircraft technology. Bill’s work has included
competitive assessments, cost-benefit analyses, and other economic
and financial advisory services in support of strategic planning,
corporate communications and labor negotiations. He is also a much
sought-after speaker and also has provided expert witness testimony
before various tribunals and before the United States Congress regarding
the economics of commercial air transport. Bill holds a Bachelor
of Science degree with honors from Eastern Michigan University and
an MBA from The George Washington University.
- Peter
P. Belobaba
is Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s International Center
for Air Transportation. He holds a Master of Science in Transportation
and a Ph.D. in Flight Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Dr. Belobaba currently teaches graduate
level courses on The Airline Industry and Airline Management, in
the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and is the
Program Manager of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program. He is
also Adjunct Professor of Aviation Management in the International
Aviation MBA Program at Concordia University’s John Molson
School of Business in Montreal. He manages the Passenger Origin-Destination
Simulator (PODS) MIT Research Consortium funded by eight international
airlines to explore issues of demand forecasting, seat inventory
optimization and competitive impacts of revenue management. He has
published articles dealing with airline pricing, revenue management
and competition in Airline Business, Operations Research,
Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Journal
of Revenue and Pricing Management and the Journal of Air
Transport Management.
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