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Regulation of Foreign Airlines in the United States

The regulation of foreign airlines in the United States is governed by international agreements indicating how foreign airlines are to be treated at airports and in airspace throughout the world. Several important international agreements have been passed and implemented to assure that international air travel takes place in a regular manner, following specific rules, and with a minimum of interference. The rules passed and the manner in which these rules have been applied have changed over the years, and the United States has altered its view as to how international regulations should be enforced.

There is no completely liberal regime for air services in the world today:

A genuinely liberal regime for air services would permit firms to enter and exit markets without government restrictions; to select which markets they would serve; to tailor their products, services, and capacity to meet perceived market demands; and to set prices independently and competitively in a marketplace free of distortions caused by government subsidies, protectionism, and other measures favoring local airlines over their foreign competitors. (Kasper, 1988, p. 2)

Before 1978, international air services were routinely subjected to strict limits on entry, routing, and capacity, and prices charged for international air services were also subject to government control, though governments had largely ceded that control to airlines under the auspices of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In 1978, the United States adopted its competitive aviation policy, but in spite of this substantial barriers continued to stand to impair both trade and transborder investment in air services. The current barriers to liberalized trade can be grouped into four categories: 1) bilateral restrictions that prevent entry or directly restrict the competitiveness of foreign airlines; 2) domestic regulatory systems; 3) restrictions in ancillary domestic mar...

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