Airports and airlines have been increasingly establishing vertical contracts, which have a wide variety of forms. These …

This paper provides an overview of how the major airports are regulated in Europe. In order to eliminate the potential … of airports to exercise market power and protect the public interest, it has become increasingly necessary to set a … quality of service and the charges practiced by the airports, to ensure cost-relatedness, transparency and non …

airports, or of lower prices set by them, on the competition between LCC’s and FSC’s. The Ryanair/ Charleroi agreement is used … consumers and negatively affects incumbent airlines. However, they may be more affected by competition than by the subsidy. An … aeronautical fees on dominated airports, and that their price strategy does not change with the presence of other LCC’s. …

levels of welfare and is recommended on that basis. This price system is adopted by some airports in the EU, in order to … a twostage game with two airlines and one airport, peak-load pricing is shown to actually decrease consumer surplus and … previous ones, and some particular features of the model, and of the airports’ specific case, account for this difference. …