Flying Lawyer
16th Mar 2004, 15:05
I found this while trawling CAA publications, and thought it might be of interest to professional pilots.
The CAA has examined the effect on employment of the liberalisation of European aviation markets, and considered the potential impact of an Open Aviation Area covering the EU and the US.
The findings have just been published in: CAP 749 The Effect of Liberalisation on Aviation Employment
I haven't read the entire paper, but this is a summary of the findings:
Liberalisation has facilitated the growth of the aviation market and has boosted employment in that sector in the UK.
The structure of the passenger airline business acts as a natural constraint on the ability to shift jobs overseas.
Pilots in particular are a skilled and scarce resource - there are not large numbers of suitably qualified pilots elsewhere that would readily be able to take over jobs from EU or US pilots.
The phenomenon of “flags of convenience” that has been seen in other industries and led to a loss of jobs from a particular country is unlikely to occur in aviation.
The perceived threats to labour from liberalisation are not borne out by experience.
Liberalisation should not be seen as a threat to labour – it should help to create benefits for employees.
Market access restrictions are not the only protection for labour interests.
The situation within the US domestic market reduces the impact of liberalisation on the US industry.
The CAA concludes that fears expressed about liberalisation of the EU-US aviation market resulting in jobs being lost "would seem to be overstated" and "need not stand in the way of reforms that would sweep away much of the outdated regulatory structure that has existed in aviation since 1944."
If anyone wants to read the full report, CAP749 is here (http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP749.PDF).
Note: It's a pdf file - you'll need Adobe Acrobat or similar installed to read it. Free downloads of the programme are readily available on the net.
Tudor Owen
The CAA has examined the effect on employment of the liberalisation of European aviation markets, and considered the potential impact of an Open Aviation Area covering the EU and the US.
The findings have just been published in: CAP 749 The Effect of Liberalisation on Aviation Employment
I haven't read the entire paper, but this is a summary of the findings:
Liberalisation has facilitated the growth of the aviation market and has boosted employment in that sector in the UK.
The structure of the passenger airline business acts as a natural constraint on the ability to shift jobs overseas.
Pilots in particular are a skilled and scarce resource - there are not large numbers of suitably qualified pilots elsewhere that would readily be able to take over jobs from EU or US pilots.
The phenomenon of “flags of convenience” that has been seen in other industries and led to a loss of jobs from a particular country is unlikely to occur in aviation.
The perceived threats to labour from liberalisation are not borne out by experience.
Liberalisation should not be seen as a threat to labour – it should help to create benefits for employees.
Market access restrictions are not the only protection for labour interests.
The situation within the US domestic market reduces the impact of liberalisation on the US industry.
The CAA concludes that fears expressed about liberalisation of the EU-US aviation market resulting in jobs being lost "would seem to be overstated" and "need not stand in the way of reforms that would sweep away much of the outdated regulatory structure that has existed in aviation since 1944."
If anyone wants to read the full report, CAP749 is here (http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP749.PDF).
Note: It's a pdf file - you'll need Adobe Acrobat or similar installed to read it. Free downloads of the programme are readily available on the net.
Tudor Owen