Trends in international aviation and governmental policies

The scope of the subject is a challenging, if not a forbidding, one. It is to trace the evolution of routes, capacity, charters, designation and rates from Chicago to the present day. Collectively, these issues encompass the question of governmental regulation of the international air transport market and embrace the total air transport system. However, there is no attempt to catalogue the specific of these policy developments worldwide. Rather, it is attempted to analyse the foundations of international aviation policy, in a shorthand steeplechase through the past, present and into the future and, in this way, to offer some interpretations of the developments over the past thirty years. In so doing, it is hoped to place in perspective the complexity of the international system and the many interrelated factors which must be taken into account by those who bear the heavy responsibility of determining national policies.