ABSTRACT

Harmonising Regulatory and Antitrust Regimes for International Air Transport addresses the timely and problematic issue of lack of uniformity in legal standards for international civil aviation. The book focuses on discrepancies within the regulatory and antitrust framework, comprehensively reveals the major legal limitations and conflicts, and presents possible solutions thereto. It discusses possible strategies for multilateralisation and defragmentation of air law, and for international harmonisation of airline economic regulation with fair competition standards. This discussion extends to competition between air transport law and other legal regimes as well as to specific regulatory problems related to air transport. The unique feature of the book is that it reconciles distinct perspectives on these issues presented by renowned aviation and aerospace experts who represent the world’s key air transport markets and air law academic centres.

By providing unbiased solutions that could serve as a base for future international arrangements, this book will be invaluable for aviation professionals, as well as students and scholars with an interest in air law, economic regulation, antitrust studies, international relations, transportation policy and airline management.

part 1|2 pages

Multilateralisation of international civil aviation relations and defragmentation of international air law

part 2|2 pages

Balancing air policy and fair competition in international air transport

chapter 3|18 pages

Airlines as allies

23How to manage the market?

chapter 4|33 pages

Regulatory schizophrenia

Mergers, alliances, metal-neutral joint ventures and the emergence of a global aviation cartel *

chapter 5|14 pages

Airline alliances

Permitted and prohibited practices in view of the EU law

chapter 6|17 pages

Competition in international air transport

An overview of EU policy developments

part 3|2 pages

Competition between air transport law and other regulatory regimes

chapter 7|18 pages

Citius, Altius, Fortius

107Regulating commercial spaceflight under air law or space law?

chapter 8|17 pages

Between global climate governance and unilateral action

The establishment of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)

chapter 9|13 pages

Airline non-commercial advantages and fair competition

The issue of labour conditions

part 4|2 pages

Regulation, deregulation or non-regulation of aerospace activities

chapter 10|20 pages

Cheap liberalisation

157Cutting regulatory corners in air transport or cutting one’s own throat?

chapter 11|12 pages

Airline nationality

A reconstruction of the EU ownership and control rules

chapter 12|13 pages

Sub-orbital traffic

A new regulatory or non-regulatory discipline

chapter 13|11 pages

The need for regional liberalisation

The issue of Damascus Agreement of 2004

chapter 14|7 pages

Air transport connectivity gap

Is regulation the answer?