Australia entered the 1980s with separate policies for its international and domestic airline industries and both restricted the scope for competition. Since then, the Australian Government privatised its airlines, it deregulated its domestic industry, it agreed to a single aviation market with...

This paper attempts to derive policy indices to quantify the restrictiveness of the aviation regimes in the Asia-Pacific region, and use the indices to establish the relationship between people movement and liberalisation in policy. Australia and Singapore have the most liberalised environment...

The nature of the impediments to trade and investment in the international air transport markets are discussed. The treatment of these impediments in the May 2001 US Plurilateral Agreement are examined, and compared to a benchmark based on the principles for an open club. The conclusion of this...