The paper examines the potential role that airfreight transport in the US can play in stimulating local and regional economic development. The analysis examines trends in employment and income for metropolitan statistical areas that make use of airfreight services. The focus is on causality, and...

This paper is concerned with variations in the efficiency of European air navigation service providers. Much analysis has been conducted on the efficiency of airlines, but less has been done on air traffic control, or strictly air navigation services. The diversity of air navigation service...

The fragmentation of the European air navigation system has been identified as a cause of inefficiencies and additional costs. One of the problems is that since the different national systems are not independent of their neighbours, there might be issues of spatial autocorrelation, where the...