Description: Open Skies for Africa : Implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision

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Open Skies for Africa : Implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision

For the purposes of this book, "open skies" refers to a bilateral or multilateral air service agreement that liberalizes the rules for international aviation markets and minimizes government intervention. It can apply to passenger or carg...

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Main Author:	Schlumberger, Charles E.
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ACCIDENTS ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY AIR AIR CARGO AIR NAVIGATION AIR SERVICE AIR SERVICES AIR TRAFFIC AIR TRANSPORT AIR TRANSPORT SECTOR AIR TRAVEL AIRCRAFT AIRLINE INDUSTRY AIRPORTS AIRWAYS ARBITRATION PROCEDURE ARBITRATION PROCEDURES ARGUMENT AUTHORITY AUTHORIZATION AVIATION INDUSTRY AVIATION SECTOR BAGGAGE BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BUFFER ZONE CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL COSTS CARRIERS CHARTER CHARTERS CHIEF EXECUTIVE COLLECTIVE COMPANY COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR COMPETITIVE MARKET CONSUMER PROTECTION DEREGULATION DISPUTE SETTLEMENT ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIES OF SCALE EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION ENTRY INTO FORCE EUROPEAN UNION FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOREIGN CARRIERS FOREIGN INVESTMENT FORMER DIRECTOR FRANCHISING FREIGHT FUEL FUEL COSTS FUEL SHORTAGES HIGHWAY HIGHWAY NETWORKS INCORPORATED INCREASE IN CAPACITY INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL AVIATION INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS LAW OF TREATIES LEGAL EXISTENCE LEGAL STATUS LEGAL SYSTEM LIMITED MAINTENANCE COSTS MARKET ACCESS MEMBER STATE MEMBER STATES MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS NATIONAL AIRLINES NEGOTIATIONS PASSENGER-KILOMETER PASSENGERS PERSONS POLITICAL ORGANIZATION POWER PROTOCOLS RAILWAY RATIFICATION RATIFICATION PROCESS REVENUE PASSENGER ROAD ROAD NETWORK ROUTE ROUTES RUNWAY SAFETY STAKEHOLDER SUBSIDIARY TRAFFIC TRANSPORT AGREEMENT TRANSPORT INDUSTRY TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORT MARKET TRANSPORT MARKETS TRANSPORT POLICY TRANSPORT SERVICES TRANSPORTATION TREATY TRUE UNION URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME OF TRAFFIC
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Summary:	For the purposes of this book, "open skies" refers to a bilateral or multilateral air service agreement that liberalizes the rules for international aviation markets and minimizes government intervention. It can apply to passenger or cargo services or both, for both scheduled and charter air services. This book evaluates Africa's progress toward liberalizing air services. It specifically examines what the term implementation means in the context of applying the principles of one of the major pan-African multilateral agreements, the Yamoussoukro decision. It also highlights the shortcomings of the 20-year-old effort toward liberalizing air services in Africa by analyzing pending or completed implementation steps both on a pan-Africa level and within various regions. The book focuses on the challenges posed by the poor aviation safety and security standards in most African countries. Finally the sector work measures the impact of certain policy steps of the decision and evaluates the economic significance of air transportation and its full liberalization in Africa. It concludes with policy recommendations that aim at completing implementation to fully liberalize Africa's air services.