ABSTRACT
This book set out with a twofold aim: to examine and understand the Single Aviation Market of Australia and New Zealand (SAMANZ), and its rationale, and to assess the extent of its potential in contributing towards greater liberalisation of air transport services in a manner that would seek to maximise the benefits of competition and choice. It seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that the SAMANZ and, indeed, regional aviation markets have an instrumental role to play in constructing a new paradigm that chimes well with the sentiments of competition and choice. Clearly, this book has concentrated only on the SAMANZ, but there is no doubt that much work remains to be done on the extent to which regional aviation markets collectively can add to the force that would rewrite the constitution and conventions of international and, indeed, domestic air transport services. The steps taken by the countries in South America, in the African continent and in the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) grouping are clear signals of the direction in which we are headed and of what may be in store.
