INFLUENCE ON AIR TRANSPORT MARKET BY RELAXING INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS RESTRICTION AT HANEDA AIRPORT

Abstract

After “Re-Expansion Project” of Haneda Airport, Japanese Government plans partial relaxation of international flights restriction policy at Haneda Airport. This policy will create new international air transport market at Japan's capital metropolitan area, and it will also provide drastic influence on existing air transport market. Since it is meaningful to evaluate the policy alternatives with physical outputs such as flight frequencies and passenger's link flow under physical constraints, this article aims to propose a methodology for the policy assessment in terms of the air transport network equilibrium and apply the methodology to policy scenario analysis.
The results imply that the behavior of the short range markets such as Tokyo-Seoul routes are sensitive to the number of international slot capacity of Haneda Airport. The analysis also estimates the influences on the markets by some “destination selection rules” with physical outputs.