World Trade Organization
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 166
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This is the first volume of the "Air Transport and the GATS 2000-2005 in Review " series, which will be published progressively in the course 2007 and 2008. It contains the documentation prepared by the WTO Secretariat for the WTO Membership in the framework of a quinquennal review process of the air transport sector. It deals with services "auxiliary" to air transport, namely maintenance repair and overhaul, airlines' ticket distribution, franchising, leasing, ground handling ,airport management and air navigation services. These services represent all together hundreds of billions of dollars of turnover and hundreds of thousands of jobs, but they are very rarely dealt with in the academic literature, be it economic or legal.