Following the decision of the European Court of Justice in 2002, which overruled its member countries’ Bilateral Air Services Agreements (BASAs), the EU has been negotiating Air Services Agreements as a block with third countries within the framework of its External Aviation policy. This paper explores whether routes governed by this policy have lower fares and higher service quality and load factors compared to those governed by BASAs, as would be expected in a liberalized air transport market. By analyzing traffic flows over 14 years between 28 EU countries and 27 external partners on 4 continents with which the EU has varying degrees of liberalization, we find that the external policy leads to 6% - 23% reduction in fares. Lower fares in turn spurred a 27% increase in demand and led to higher levels of capacity utilization.

根据2002年欧洲法院的裁决，该裁决否决了其成员国的双边航空服务协定（BASAs），欧盟一直在与外部国家/地区在其外部航空政策框架内就航空服务协定进行谈判。与开放式航空运输市场所期望的相比，本文探索了与BASA所管制的路线相比，该政策所管制的路线是否具有更低的票价，更高的服务质量和负荷率。通过分析28个欧盟国家与欧盟在不同程度的自由化程度不同的4个大洲的27个外部合作伙伴之间14年的交通流量，我们发现外部政策导致票价降低了6％-23％。较低的票价反过来刺激了需求的27％增长，并导致更高的运力利用率。