Publisher's Synopsis
The first significant move towards a single European market for air transport was the December 1987 package. Since the 1950s there has been little progress in this direction. This changed by the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, in particular with the adoption of the second and third package in 1991 and 1992 which were milestones in the development of a common air transport policy of the European Community.;This work reviews the implications of such a common policy and argues that it is an indispensable part of a genuine Single Market. It also explores other important reasons, such as the increasing air space congestion, the dependence of small and medium-sized airlines on the computerized reservation systems of other airlines and, finally, by the growing threat of the large US airlines.;The title posits that, contrary to some expectations, more freedom of competition in an integrated European airtransport market will strengthen the position of the Euopean carriers vis-a-vis the global airlines.
