Liberalization of Air Transport Services and Passenger Traffic

Abstract

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The Air Liberalisation Index as a tool in measuring the impact of South Africa's aviation policy in Africa on air passenger traffic flows

“…The panel data approach enabled the incorporation of an explanatory variable to account for the number of years a particular bilateral has been in place. The Ordinary Least Squares method that has been utilised in numerous cross-sectional studies (InterVISTAS-ga 2 Consulting, Inc., 2006;Piermartini and Rousova, 2008;InterVISTAS-EU Consulting, Inc., 2009;Grosso, 2010) to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables for cross-sections could not be applied in this study due to the unique characteristics of the panel data. To quantify the impact of the South Africa's aviation policy in Africa and its key market access features on air passenger traffic flows the study utilises the four variants of the Air Liberalisation Index (ALI).…”

“…The result of this liberalisation has been seen in the increase in air passenger traffic flows in various regions of the world (Myburgh et al, 2006; InterVISTAS-ga 2 Consulting, Inc., 2006;Warnock-Smith and Morrell, 2008;Piermartini and Rousova, 2008;InterVISTAS-EU Consulting, Inc., 2009;Schlumberger, 2010;Grosso, 2010). In Africa, the Yamoussoukro Decision (YD), which entered into force in 2000 and became fully binding in 2002, remains the single most important air transport reform policy to date.…”

Aviation: a risky business. Green and level playing fields? A paradox of virtues 'dumping' - anti-competitiveness!

“…As the WTO Working Paper 53 identified the specific provision and type of air service agreement in force directly indicates how regulated the market is. In this respect it is identified that there remains an 'intricate web of bilateral air services agreements' wherein, rules arguably unnecessarily limit liberalization of air transport service operations between countries.…”

Back Matter

“…The volume of any import of a good by country i from country j is identical to country j 's export of the good to country i, and the cif import value of that trade flow must exceed fob export values because they include 20 Formal cartels (shipping conferences) no longer exist, but uncompetitive practices remain; see the annual UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport and Hummels, Lugovskyy and Skiba (2009). Competition in air transport services is analysed by Micco and Serebrisky (2006), Geloso Grosso (2008), Piermartini and Rousova (2008) and Geloso Grosso and Shepherd (2009). 21 Even geography and commodity characteristics may not be completely exogenous.…”