Air Transport and the European Union investigates the emergence of the EU
as a major policy actor in aviation and examines how Europeanization has transformed the
governance, organization and structure of the sector since the mid-1980s. It addresses the
question of how, when a detailed regulatory system already existed, the EU was able to
establish its own policy-making competence and to override the wishes of the majority or
member states opposed to EU involveme
Hussein Kassim is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck University of
London.
Handley Stevens is former Under Secretary for International Aviation at
the UK Department of Transport.
Table of Contents
Tables and Figure
1 Introduction 1
Pt. I Air Transport under the Traditional Regime 19
2 From the Chicago Conference to the New US Aviation Policy 21
3 National Aviation Policy in Europe 40
Pt. II The Development of the Common Air Transport Policy 57
4 From the Sidelines to the Margins: The EC and Aviation, 1950-83 59
5 The Liberal Breakthrough, 1984-7 81
6 Completing the Single Market in Air Services 105
7 Extending the Scope of the Common Air Transport Policy 130
8 Beyond the Borders of the Single Market 154
Pt. III The Impact of EU Action 179
9 Regulating the Single Market 181
10 The EU and the Transformation of European Aviation 216
11 Conclusion: Revolution in the Air 257
Notes 271
References 298
Glossary 326
Index 327
332 pages, Hardcover