ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the problem of airport congestion and its aggravation by the issue of slot allocation for the arrival and departure of aircraft at international airports. Recent trends in the liberalization of market access by many commercial airlines have opened the skies to virtually unlimited flights between many countries. However, this liberalization is stultified by the lack of airport capacity to accommodate the many flights that are generated by demand for capacity. Accordingly, the allocation of slots for ‘open skies’ airlines remain dependent on the expansion and effective management of airport capacity.
