Transport

Aviation, airport and airline economics, regulation and performance

ACIL Tasman experience within air transport covers a wide range of economic, competitive, financial, regulatory and performance issues.

Our work on airport pricing policy and the economic regulation of airports has included advice on the application of RPI-X price control to airport charging and examination of the impact of greater competition in ground handling at airports.

Projects on airport project evaluation and airport economic impact studies have covered issues such as the regional impact of airports and of airline hubs, and the review of an environmental impact statement for an airport.

ACIL Tasman also has extensive experience on issues concerning airline deregulation, competition and financial performance. ACIL Tasman staff have written extensively on the aviation market, including the structure of the domestic market, cabotage and price discrimination. Our advice has also covered the review of aviation aspects of the Trade Practices Act, aviation cabotage, and a review of new aviation security regulations. Some of our airport and aviation projects have covered:

regional impact of airports
competition
predatory pricing, price discrimination and competition
domestic route cabotage
ground handling facilities.
aviation security regulations

See our air transport case studies.