This definitive book offers the first full study of the development of the European Union's air-transport policy. Crucial to both globalization and regional integration, commercial aviation, along with other transport industries, provides the logistics for business activities, political life, and contact between cultures. Exploring the long struggle to create a "Europe of the air" through both regulatory change and airline strategizing, Martin Staniland examines the political bargains that have shaped a highly fragmented industry and its regulation. An invaluable case-study in industrial policy, this book will be essential reading for students of aviation, as well as for scholars interested in regulatory change and European integration.

By Martin Staniland - Foreword by Daniel Calleja

Introduction
Part I: The E.U. Market Order
Chapter 1: Regulating the Airlines
Chapter 2: Chicago and the Growth of Europeanism
Chapter 3: The Commission and the Member States
Chapter 4: Negotiating the Three Packages
Chapter 5: The Dilemmas and Strategies of the Airlines
Part II: Managing the Market
Chapter 6: Third-Country Agreements and Air Traffic Management
Chapter 7: Airport Access
Chapter 8: The State Aid Problem
Chapter 9: Mergers and Acquisitions
Chapter 10: Alliances and Globalization
Conclusion