The impact of US–EU “Open Skies†agreement on airline market structures and airline networks

Kenneth Button

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2009, vol. 15, issue 2, 59-71

Abstract: The gradual liberalization of international air transport has largely benefited the traveling public. Progress since the development of concepts such as “Open Skies†in the late 1970s as an alternative to the restrictive bilateral air service agreements that had effectively controlled most international air transport since the mid-1940s has been uneven and spasmodic. The recent move to open the North Atlantic more fully to competition has proved a particularly challenging task, and the agreement between the US and the European Union is still both partial and conditional. This paper offers an overview of the economics of the situation and provides insights into the reasons why it has developed in the way it has, the outcomes that we may expect from it, and some consideration of the wider, non-commercial, impacts that it may have.

Keywords: Transatlantic; Airline alliances; European Union; Chicago Convention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.09.010

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