A Study on Air Transport Liberalisation based on ICAO’s Extant Documents

Abstract

The need to reduce control over the rules that influence commercial activities resulted in an effort to liberalise the airline industry. Nations that embraced the idea of liberalisation and committed to this cause with long term strategies placed significant investments and regulatory improvements and became dominant players in the aviation industry. ICAO’s Worldwide Air Transport Conferences developed awareness at an international level about increased concerns related to the progress of liberalisation. This paper aims to provide an in depth discussion through the analysis of ICAO’s extant documents in understanding concerns raised during ATConf/5 and ATConf/6 and to support the view that Worldwide Air Transport Conferences not only contributed in understanding global air transport problems in the area of economic regulation but also fortified ICAO’s role in this field.