Air transportation for effective and efficient service to small more remote communities: Policy options under regulatory reform
Overview
Background & policy context:
The last decades have witnessed a global trend toward airline deregulation, with significant impacts on national provisions for air service to smaller communities. One of the consequences of liberalization is that the carriers are no longer constrained to serve routes, and may thus neglect service to less profitable destinations with lower density traffic. Deregulation can therefore have detrimental effects on small remote centers.
Objectives:
The working hypothesis is that the analysis of multiple worldwide experiments with air service of small remoter communities will allow the identification of best practices. The main argument is that the policy design that works better in each case can be acknowledged, and thus provide a good starting point for further policy formulation and recommendations.
The exploration of the world best practices in policy design is developed from the evaluation of mature experiences of the U.S.A. Canada and the Northern Territories, and the assessment of progress toward deregulation in countries like Portugal, Spain and Brazil, according to two criteria: effectiveness and efficiency.
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