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Ground handling liberalization

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  • Soames, Trevor

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Council Directive 96/67/EC introduces some liberalization into the ground handling market at European Community airports. The Commission's proposal excited significant differences of views among airlines, airports and providers of ground handling services, most of whom are state-owned and/or related to the national carrier. The Directive attempts to reach a compromise between these various interests, but in a number of respects those of the monopoly providers of handling services appear to have prevailed. The Directive creates some scope for airlines to selfhandle and for third parties to provide handling services, but with significant scope for exceptions and, in some cases, long transitional periods. However, the EC competition rules continue to be applicable to abusive behaviour by dominant companies, and may be enforced in this sector by the EC, or invoked by private parties in national courts.

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  • Soames, Trevor, 1997. "Ground handling liberalization," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 83-94.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:3:y:1997:i:2:p:83-94
    DOI: 10.1016/S0969-6997(97)00008-2
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    1. Patriarca, Riccardo & Di Gravio, Giulio & Costantino, Francesco, 2016. "Assessing performance variability of ground handlers to comply with airport quality standards," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 1-6.
    2. Schmidberger, Stephan & Bals, Lydia & Hartmann, Evi & Jahns, Christopher, 2009. "Ground handling services at European hub airports: Development of a performance measurement system for benchmarking," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 117(1), pages 104-116, January.
    3. Burghouwt, Guillaume & Poort, Joost & Ritsema, Hendriena, 2014. "Lessons learnt from the market for air freight ground handling at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 56-63.
    4. Gianmaria Martini & Davide Scotti, 2009. "Potere di mercato e distribuzione dei profitti nella filiera del trasporto aereo," Working Papers 0906, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo.
    5. Sveinn Vidar Gudmundsson, 2011. "Liberalization of Air Transport," Chapters, in: Matthias Finger & Rolf W. Künneke (ed.), International Handbook of Network Industries, chapter 14, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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