Productivity Commission

International air services

Draft report

Please note: This draft report is for research purposes only. For final outcomes of this inquiry refer to the inquiry report.

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Contents

  • Preliminaries
    • Cover, Copyright, Terms of reference, Contents, and Abbreviations and explanations
  • Overview
  • Draft recommendations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 This inquiry
    • 1.2 The Productivity Commission's approach
    • 1.3 This report
  • Chapter 2 The airline industry
    • 2.1 Australian airlines in the global airline industry
    • 2.2 Growth and distribution of world air traffic
    • 2.3 Growth in Australia's international air transport industry
    • 2.4 Demand characteristics of air travel
    • 2.5 Airline costs
    • 2.6 Airline profitability
  • Chapter 3 Regulation of international air services
    • 3.1 History of international air services regulation
    • 3.2 International trends towards liberalisation
    • 3.3 Recent changes to Australia's aviation regulation
  • Chapter 4 Australia's international aviation policy
    • 4.1 Policy objectives
    • 4.2 Economy wide approach
    • 4.3 Responding to market demand
    • 4.4 Balance of benefits
  • Chapter 5 Economic effects on airlines, users and the economy
    • 5.1 Regulatory restrictions on airlines
    • 5.2 Effects on airline costs
    • 5.3 Effects on airline revenues
    • 5.4 Competition among airlines
    • 5.5 Effects on passenger airfares and services
    • 5.6 Effects on users of air freight
    • 5.7 Regional effects
    • 5.8 Economy wide effects
  • Chapter 6 Capacity allocation and the International Air Services Commission
    • 6.1 Multiple designation in Australia
    • 6.2 Has multiple designation and the IASC provided a net benefit?
    • 6.3 Alternative allocation approaches
    • 6.4 The International Air Services Commission Act
    • 6.5 The policy statement of the Minister for Transport and Regional Development
    • 6.6 Relationship with the ACCC
    • 6.7 The Common Aviation Market
    • 6.8 Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 Access to airports
    • 7.1 Australia's international airports
    • 7.2 Existing operational constraints on airport access
    • 7.3 Providing access to airports
    • 7.4 Promoting competition in on-airport services
    • 7.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter 8 Towards further liberalisation
    • 8.1 The liberalisation agenda
    • 8.2 International production and trade in air services
    • 8.3 Designation of airlines
    • 8.4 Unilateral reform
    • 8.5 Bilateral liberalisation
    • 8.6 Plurilateral open club
    • 8.7 Multilateral liberalisation
    • 8.8 The Australia - New Zealand Single Aviation Market
    • 8.9 The Commission's preferred approach
    • 8.10 Competition principles legislative review findings
  • Appendices
    • A Conduct of the inquiry
    • B Competition principles agreement
    • C The Australian international air services market
    • D Australia's international trade agreements covering air services
    • E Australia's international air services arrangements
    • F Impact of liberalised international air services agreements
  • References
  • TABLE
    • Table E1 Capacity negotiated and utilised under Australia's Air Service Agreements as at 1 February 1998

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