unlikely as "bad news" is "good news" and most often failures and scandals make it to the front page. Berlin airport or the on …-going failure to open up a nearly-complete new airport has been the front runner in this regard and gained so much international …

If one is asked to give an appraisal of airport development in metropolitan areas in Japan, an unsparing critic may not … esteem it highly for three reasons. One, because planning for the secondary airport at Tokyo and Osaka was initiated too late … to match growth in demand. Two, due to untimely planning, the original airport was exasperated with the noise issue by …

Like most large cities, Sydney has an airport problem. Demand is increasing faster than supply, and additional capacity …

law and in judgments made as to whether they have significant market power. In the context of the airport industry …, assessing price-elasticities is complicated by the fact that one major type of consumer of airport services, the air passenger …, is not charged directly for use of terminals and airside infrastructure. Instead, the airport derives its revenues from …

airport performance along a rich array of dimensions such as passengers per flight, total passengers, number of routes, number … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …. These effects are largest when there is a competing airport nearby. Finally, we show that outright ownership rather than …