To pursue or not to pursue? An examination of air services liberalisation between Central Asia and China

With COVID-19 travel restrictions easing up, countries have sought to revitalise their aviation industries to boost their nation’s economy. Among these initiatives include the gradual liberalisation of Air Service Agreements (ASAs) to deregulate flights and increase passenger flows. However, reducin...

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Main Author: Chiou, Zi Lin
Other Authors: Chou Meng-Hsuan
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175658
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:With COVID-19 travel restrictions easing up, countries have sought to revitalise their aviation industries to boost their nation’s economy. Among these initiatives include the gradual liberalisation of Air Service Agreements (ASAs) to deregulate flights and increase passenger flows. However, reducing emissions from aviation remains a pressing issue, particularly as these emissions are difficult to abate. Today, Central Asia remains a region with a highly regulated aviation industry and relatively lower air connectivity, while simultaneously being a region that stands to gain enormously from increased liberalisation due to its land-locked nature. Liberalising air services with China, a major economy, is likely to bring tremendous economic benefits to Central Asia. Simultaneously, however, these increased traffic flows will undoubtedly increase emissions. This paper quantifies the economic benefits and environmental costs of liberalising air services and explores other factors that will play into the decision on whether to liberalise. Altogether, this paper hopes to address certain key issues that may arise when the Central Asian nations are looking to increase their air connectivity through liberalising their ASAs.