The Basic Market Acess Rights on Air Transport

This paper makes a short history of Air Law before explaning how the economic regulation works on air transport and its going to focus on the basic market access rights. The economic regulation on air transport is shared on three kinds of regulation: national, bilateral and multilateral. At the national level, the regulation is organized by a civil aviation authority. This authority is responsible to organize the civil aviation within a State and make international agreements to regulate the market access rights. While the bilateral regulation there is gap to determinate who is the regulation authority. So, it is regulates by the practice. The multilateral regulation has two important authorities - ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) and IATA (International Air Transport Association) - that makes the basic rules of regulation to be followed by the States that signed the International Civil Aviation Conference. About the economic regulation of air transport, ICAO stipulates 10 principles. Being the basic market acess rights the main one. The basic market acess rights are responsible to determinate the level international competition within a State through route and traffic and exploration rights by a foreign airline.