This policy note aims to evaluate the effects of the traffic distribution rules introduced in the Milan airport system in 2000, whose objective was to steer traffic from Linate to Malpensa. However, Linate continued operating to the major European destinations, overlapping with the Malpensa...

This paper classifies and compares eight different connectivity models employed in air transport literature and applies them to European airports. Traditional size-based measures tend to underestimate the accessibility of small airports and overestimate the centrality of large airports. Small...