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Auctioning airport slots (?)

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Nicolas Gruyer () (LEEA (air transport economics laboratory), ENAC)
Nathalie Lenoir () (LEEA (air transport economics laboratory), ENAC)
Abstract

The current allocation of slots on congested European airports constitutes an obstacle to the effective liberalisation of air transportation undertaken in Europe. With a view to favouring efficient slot utilisation and competition, as is the goal of the European commission, we propose to use a market mechanism, based on temporary utilisation licences. In order to allocate those licences, we propose and describe an iterated combinatorial auction mechanism where a percentage of licences would be reallocated each season. A secondary market would also be set up in order to reallocate slots during a season. Since a combinatorial auction involve a complex optimisation procedure, we describe how it can be made to work in the case of auctions.

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Paper provided by LEEA (air transport economics laboratory), ENAC (french national civil aviation school) in its series Economics Working Papers with number 01.

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Keywords: slots airports licence auction combinatorial

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D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Auctions
L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation
L98 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Government Policy
H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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