The deregulation of civil aviation in the United States has led to customers being offered a wider choice of flights at lower fares, whereas deregulation within the european Community is still a distant prospect. Chris Redston examines the proposals of the European Commission for liberalization...

After the shipping industry it is now the turn of international civil aviation to be increasingly drawn into the North-South conflicts and controversies. The developing countries stated clearly at several conferences in the past year that they consider themselves internationally disadvantaged in...

The airports in the Federal Republic of Germany have for years shown a rate of traffic increase far exceeding that of any other branch of the transport and communications industry. The result of this trend are adjustment problems particularly as far as regional air traffic, airport planning and...

Unconventional forms of international trade (such as counterpurchase, compensation deals and barter) have assumed rapidly growing importance, especially in many developing countries, as a consequence of the fall in commodity prices and the worsening of international debt problems since the oil...