Is EU's Open Aviation Policy Good for Air Transport?
International air transport is at a crossroads. The aviation industry's center of gravity has moved toward the East, with main hubs in the Gulf region and ever-increasing passenger markets located in Asia. Long-haul inter-continental low-cost-...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656521506001907523/Is-EUs-open-aviation-policy-good-for-air-transport http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28353 |
| Summary: | International air transport is at a
crossroads. The aviation industry's center of gravity
has moved toward the East, with main hubs in the Gulf region
and ever-increasing passenger markets located in Asia.
Long-haul inter-continental low-cost-carriers have emerged.
Global alliances and their effects on competition have come
into question. These outcomes have led to a reignited
interest in the issue of liberalization in aviation:
European regulators now need to balance concerns about fair
competition with their own decades-long push for the
multilateral liberalization of the aviation industry. |
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