Who stopped flying around September 11?

Abstract

This article presents the first set of empirical results on the effects of the events of 11 September 2001, on individual flying demand using data collected before and after these atrocities.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Jurgen Brauer, Paul Dunne, Peter Howells, Derek Leslie and Samuel Perlo-Freeman for helpful comments on earlier drafts and Matthias Schmidlin and Philip Lawrence for insights gained through helpful discussions. Any errors are the author's responsibility.

Notes

¹ See Rose (1992) for a literature review and discussion of relevant topics.

² The first sweep of data was designed to assess perceptions of flying safety. Due to the events of 9/11, we decided to collect another sweep of data in an attempt to identify whether these safety perceptions had changed.