Airline Ownership and Control Rules

FOR AN INDUSTRY AS GLOBAL as the airline business, it seems impossible that there could be major constraints on international cooperation, let alone mergers. Now there is a growing consensus in the airline industry that the 70 year old provisions restricting the foreign ownership and control of airlines are archaic and should be significantly liberalised - or abolished. However, a majority of delegates at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit in Dublin on 11-May-2017 did not expect the rules to be discarded in the short term. The discussion had as its foundation the report published in Airline Leader, issue 37, Nov/Dec-2016: "Disruption in the airline industry: It is coming, faster and bigger than you think."