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Assessing the impact of open skies agreements
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posted on 2012-11-23, 10:21 authored by David PitfieldThis chapter outlines the individual country open skies agreements between the
USA and other countries as well as the EU-US Open Skies Agreement signed in
2007, which came into force in 2008. Evidence is provided on the impact of both
the individual agreements as well as the EU-US Agreement by using time series
analysis with intervention terms to estimate the impact on passenger numbers.
The empirical focus is on British Airways (BA) and its Open Skies off shoot airline
serving New York from Paris Orly. Comments are also made on the recently
discontinued service from Amsterdam (AMS) as well as the impact on slots at
airports, including London Heathrow, and on airline start ups given the change in
ownership regulations, for example the case of Virgin America. The data
requirements of a more widespread assessment looking at costs and pricing is
reviewed, following the reports of the Brattle Group and Booz Allen Hamilton, as
well as the difficulties of dealing with the counterfactual, if such data became
available.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
PITFIELD, D.E., 2010. Assessing the impact of open skies agreements. IN: Macario, R. and Van de Voorde, E. (eds.) Critical Issues in Air Transport Economics and Business, pp. 251 - 265.Publisher
© Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
This book chapter was published in the book, Critical Issues in Air Transport Economics and Business [© 2012 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group]. The publisher's website is at: http://www.routledge.com/ISBN
9780415570558Publisher version
Book series
Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy;Language
- en