Harmonising Regulatory and Antitrust Regimes for International Air Transport addresses the timely and problematic issue of lack of uniformity in legal standards for international civil aviation.First, it focuses on discrepancies within the regulatory and antitrust framework and possible...

This essay is divided into several sections:1. The first is theintroduction.2. In the second, we examine the empirical evidence of predatory conduct. We examine how major airlines behave in three scenarios: (1) major airline vs. major airline; (2) major airline vs. Southwest Airlines; and (3)...

Though the early 1990s brought about a proliferation of new entrant airlines, the late 1990s was an era of bankruptcies, liquidations and retrenchments for upstart airlines. Five new airlines per year emerged from 1990 to 1995. But from 1995 until early 1999, not a single new airline began...

This year (1987), the United States celebrates its centennial of economic regulation of transportation. The establishment of our nation's first independent regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), in 1887, was motivated largely by the need to shield the public against the...