This paper provides an analysis of China's air cargo flows. We identify major air transport hubs in China and examine cargo movements between them. We also discuss some of the difficulties in comparing air cargo data between Mainland China and Hong Kong, and point out the areas where China's...

The air transport industry has remained one of the most regulated and restrictive industries in international trade. Domestic deregulation and liberalization have been progressing at an uneven pace across countries, and liberalization of the international markets has yet to overcome numerous...

This paper shows that when the policy of financial break-even is implemented, “strict†financial break-even on an annual, or even short-run, basis may not be socially desirable. To maximize social welfare, airports should be allowed to take losses, or make profits, at different times...

This paper discusses Hong Kong air cargo in the context of both China and the Asia-Pacific region. We provide a description of a conceptual framework that is useful for discussing the role of an international airfreight hub, a detailed discussion on the characteristics and trends of air cargo in...

This paper provides a general discussion of various issues related to the liberalization of air cargo services in international aviation. It shows that all-cargo carriers may have different routing needs than passenger carriers and thus require different sets of air traffic rights from those...

This paper investigates the influence of competition and aviation policy reform (for example, the airport localization program and listing airports on stock markets) in China on the efficiency of Chinese airports. By using Data Envelopment Analysis, we estimate both the productivity level and...

This article describes the regulatory and enterprise reform in the Chinese airline industry and its impact on the industry’s tremendous growth in recent years. It starts with a brief description of China’s general economic and industrial reform, followed by a detailed description...

This paper investigates the impact of airline market structure on airport productivity, in which airlines are viewed as downstream users of an airport in a vertical airport–airlines structure. Our estimation is based on a sample of eleven major airports in Northeast Asia. A standard...

This paper summarizes main research results concerning global airline alliances and investigates the potential roles of Air Canada and other Canadian air carriers in the increasingly powerful global alliance networks. After describing the history, status and prospect of global alliance networks,...