The Irish Department of Transport recently published a National Aviation Policy Statement, following a two-year review of aviation policy and consideration of responses to a draft statement. In this presentation, aspects of the policy statement are reviewed from the standpoint of maximising the...

Congestion has become a problem for many airports throughout the world. Two different policy options to control congestion are analyzed in this paper: slot constraints and congestion pricing. In particular, our model takes into account that the airline industry is characterized by significant...

Airport regulations can take the form of cost-based, incentive, single-till and dual-till regulations. The present chapter highlights that no regulatory regime can solve all pricing and investment problems involved in airport operations at once when airports control prices in the areas of...

The aviation industry doubles market size every 15 years. This growth is partly determined by changes in government regulations. The present chapter describes how the privatization and deregulation of airline markets has contributed to this development. First, we describe the historic...