Economic Regulation of Airport Services
Inquiry report
This inquiry report was released on 30 March 2012.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 615 Kb)
- Cover, Copyright, Letter of transmittal, Terms of reference, Contents, Abbreviations, Explanations and Glossary
- Overview - including key points (PDF - 673 Kb)
- Findings and Recommendations (PDF - 427 Kb)
- Chapter 1 About the inquiry (PDF - 456 Kb)
- 1.1 Background to the inquiry
- 1.2 The Commission's task
- 1.3 The Commission's approach
- 1.4 Conduct of the inquiry
- Chapter 2 Australia's major airports (PDF - 461 Kb)
- 2.1 Australia's major airports: an introduction
- 2.2 Inside a major airport
- 2.3 Developments in the air travel market
- Chapter 3 The institutional environment (PDF - 463 Kb)
- 3.1 Airport sale and lease conditions
- 3.2 Price and quality of service monitoring
- 3.3 Other relevant competition legislation
- 3.4 Other regulation of airports
- 3.5 Airport planning arrangements
- 3.6 Land access infrastructure and services
- Chapter 4 Performance of Australian airports (PDF - 881 Kb)
- 4.1 Benchmarking in the airport sector
- 4.2 Benchmarking and regulation
- 4.3 Performance of Australian airports
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Market power and regulation (PDF - 606 Kb)
- 5.1 Economically efficient airports
- 5.2 The market power rationale for airport regulation
- 5.3 Which airports have market power?
- 5.4 For which services do airports have market power?
- 5.5 Other rationales for regulating airport services?
- 5.6 Optimising regulation to address airports' market power
- Chapter 6 Investment and capacity (PDF - 738 Kb)
- 6.1 What is investment and capacity?
- 6.2 Investment determinants
- 6.3 Investment at Australian airports/li>
- 6.4 Concerns about investment at Australian airports
- Annex on investment and pricing
- Chapter 7 Airside and terminal: monitoring outcomes (PDF - 533 Kb)
- 7.1 Reported price outcomes
- 7.2 Reported quality of service outcomes
- Chapter 8 Commercial negotiation (PDF - 511 Kb)
- 8.1 The slow path from regulation to negotiation
- 8.2 Airport users' views on commercial negotiation
- 8.3 Where to now?
- Chapter 9 Options for future airport regulation (PDF - 607 Kb)
- 9.1 The anecdotal evidence is contradictory
- 9.2 How is the light-handed regime performing?
- 9.3 What remedies exist now?
- 9.4 The regime would benefit from a credible threat
- 9.5 Is an arbitration mechanism also needed?
- 9.6 Future role for price and quality monitoring?
- Chapter 10 Improving the monitoring regime (PDF - 679 Kb)
- 10.1 Objectives of monitoring
- 10.2 Administrative and compliance costs
- 10.3 Specific components of monitoring
- 10.4 Reporting and interpretation of monitoring results
- 10.5 Coverage of quality of service monitoring
- 10.6 Is monitoring effective?
- 10.7 Improvements to the monitoring regime
- Chapter 11 Airport car parking and ground transport access (PDF - 721 Kb)
- 11.1 Market power in ground transport access
- 11.2 The broader ground transport market
- 11.3 Car parking prices reflect more than cost of supply
- 11.4 Car park investment
- 11.5 Evidence of misuse of market power in car parking
- 11.6 Ground transport access fees and conditions
- 11.7 Future regulatory arrangements
- Chapter 12 Broader land transport access and integration issues (PDF - 595 Kb)
- 12.1 The state of play 'on the ground'
- 12.2 Coordination of planning systems
- 12.3 Government funding of road infrastructure
- 12.4 Funding infrastructure on and around airports
- Chapter 13 Broader aviation issues (PDF - 509 Kb)
- 13.1 Conduct of rural and regional airports
- 13.2 General aviation at major capital city airports
- 13.3 Aviation security charges
- 13.4 Noise management at airports
- 13.5 Fuel throughput levies
- Appendix A Conduct of the inquiry (PDF - 409 Kb)
- Appendix B Airports and related information (PDF - 403 Kb)
- Appendix C Economic regulation of airports: an international comparison (PDF - 493 Kb)
- References (PDF - 401 Kb)
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