This study examines the impact of bilateral air service agreements (BASAs) on air passenger transport in Africa and quantifies the consumer welfare effects associated with air transport liberalization. Using data for 71 country pairs from Africa observed over the period 2011-2019, the paper...

With the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), Germany has made its claim as the leader in European air defence. Taking a joint approach to defence is a good step forward, but difficult to implement. Important European partners, above all France and Italy, are currently unwilling to follow...

Commercial airplanes are vectors of infectious disease, advancing, if not sparking, global epidemics and potentially pandemics by exporting pathogens from endemic areas of the world to non-endemic places. For example, according to the global scientific community, the Zika virus was introduced to...

The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an existential threat to the air transport sector globally, including in Africa. Due to sustained and significant loss of revenue coupled with the presence of several fixed and quasi-fixed inputs in this sector, the survival of carriers is questionable in the...

The air transport sector is an integral part of economic growth and development. As the only available means of transporting passengers and goods across the globe within a single day, air transport provides critical connectivity between regions and better access to global markets. The creation...

This study examines the impact of bilateral air service agreements on air passenger transport in Africa and quantifies the consumer welfare effects associated with air transport liberalization. Using an unbalanced panel of 71 country pairs from Africa observed over 2011-19, the paper estimates...

The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an existential threat to the air transport sector globally, including in Africa. Due to sustained and significant loss of revenue coupled with the presence of several fixed and quasi-fixed inputs in this sector, the survival of carriers is questionable in the...

Luftverkehrsdienste benötigen ergänzende boden- und luftseitige Infrastrukturen. Kapazitätsbeschränkungen des Start- und Landebahnsystems eines Flughafens stellen einen erheblichen Engpass dar. Das Nutzungsrecht hängt von der Verfügbarkeit eines Slots ab. Wenn die Nachfrage nach Slots das...

India emerged as the ninth -largest aviation market globally, with more than 120 operational airports, notably 34 internationally operating, complemented by increasing arguments and counterarguments regarding the aviation's contribution to the climate change. There is an urgent need to assess,...

This paper uses a variety of data sources to study the effect of deregulation on the structure of wages in the airline industry. Microdata from the 1980 and 1990 Censuses show a 10 percent decline in the relative earnings of airline workers after deregulation, with roughly similar declines for...

Change is the only constant. 25th march 2020- a red letter day in the world calendar of the 21st century. Industries witnessed the unprecedented. While each new day spelt doom for yet another industry, a handful of companies started rolling in the big bucks. Aviation, entertainment, hospitality,...

Viele aktuelle Probleme im Luftverkehr hängen mit der Zahl der Flugbewegungen zusammen. Überfüllungen im Luftraum, erschwerte Koordination an Flughäfen, hohe Emissionen von Lärm und Schadstoffen sowie große Komplexität der Airlines sind Begleiterscheinungen zu vieler Flugbewegungen. Die...

This paper examines earnings management dynamics in the airline industry around the industry deregulation of 1978. The 'corporate-governance-dynamics' hypothesis (Kole and Lehn, 1999) suggests that there exists a time lag of the internal corporate governance systems in adapting to new industry...

It is important for the Government to keep the market in check and to maintain a standard of conduct where it promotes a healthy competition between all the players in the market. It is here where the Competition Commission of India (CCI) comes into play as the major regulator who lays down the...

For most of its history, commercial aviation has tended toward large airplanes, large airports, and rigidly scheduled flights. Now, however, two phenomena—technological innovation and long-term societal changes accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic—are creating an environment in which many...

This paper explores the impact of airport noise regulation on airline service quality and airfares. It also characterizes the socially optimal stringency of noise limits, taking both noise damage and the various costs borne by airlines and their passengers into account. The analysis also...

This paper describes the effects of deregulation on negotiated wage rates and employment levels of aircraft mechanics in the scheduled airline industry. Firm-specific data for the incumbent trunk airlines show relatively small changes in real wage rates since deregulation,and only recent...

This paper examines explicit northern and Arctic connectivity policies in Canada, recognising the vital importance of air services in economic and social life. It comments on existing legislation, regulations, policies and programmes of the federal government as well as of Canada’s three...

This book offers new insights into the theory and practice of economic airport regulation. In light of recent developments in aviation markets and policy, and the debate on airport regulation and benchmarking, it offers case studies on various aspects of economic regulation of city and regional...

The Context of the Airline Industry – An African Market Perspective -- Air Transport Regulation – A Perspective on Africa´s Regulatory Framework -- Emergence of the Low Cost Carrier model in Africa -- Demand patterns in air passenger transportation – Application of Gravity Model --...

In addition to carbon dioxide, air traffic operation affects the climate through other emissions and atmospheric processes, such as the formation of ozone and contrail cirrus. The climate impact of these non-CO2 effects is strongly dependent on the emission location (in particular cruise...