Globalization, Liberalization and Privatization of Aviation Industry: Emerging Legal Issues

PROJECT ASSIGNMENT- AVIATION LAW-I

Project Title: “Globalization, Liberalization and Privatization of Aviation Industry: Emerging   Legal issues.”

SUBMITTED BY:
K.HARISH
(2010-2011)

CONTENTS

  * Globalization of Aviation Regulations
  * INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
  * NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
  * Liberalization of Aviation IndustrY
  * AIR TRAVEL MARKET
  * GROWTH: INDIAN TRAVEL IS ON A ROLL
  * Privatization of Aviation Industry

Globalization of Aviation Regulations:

With the advent of ‘Globalization’, a term generally interpreted as a positive thing, it is likely that those with more to lose will indeed lose more than those with nothing to lose. As aviation procedures are ‘harmonized’ by regulators in their effort to attain a world-wide standard, it is always easier to achieve consensus by lessening expectations and associated freedoms.

To understand what is currently happening to aviation in Canada it is interesting to speculate on the effect foreign cultures are having and will continue to have on Canada’s owners and pilots.

ICAO and other parts of the world have come to the conclusion that there are in fact three basic cultures in the world as regards aviation. The choice of three may at first appear to be an over-simplification, but think about it. These conceptual models can be summarized and in their essence their perspective is:

  * Model 1): People are not permitted to fly;
  * Model 2): Everyone is permitted to fly;
  * Model 3): If we have enough rules, then people may fly.

Model 1 is found in the majority of the world, particularly in dictatorial, dogmatic or paternalistic cultures. Leaders in these cultures generally discourage that people communicate – be it by good roads, good telephone system, permitting ham radio, television (electric power), free print media, or travel by air. The argument that there is no flying in such countries due to economics does not wash because these countries always have... [continues]

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