Freedoms of the air and effects of 5th freedom implementation at Ankara Airport

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the Civil Aviation Regulations, and to prove that the more a market is liberalized, the better chance it has to grow. Many civil aviation authorities are strict regarding airlines of third-party countries in order to protect their own market and to support their flag carrier. However, it is possible to use third-party countries' airlines in order to grow the market and while supporting their own flag carrier. Unproductive airports and Flight Information Regions might be used to set the market in motion. This thesis contains six chapters. After Introduction and Literature Review the third chapter contains the definition of Air Freedoms. Chapter four contains the Study Methodology. In the fifth chapter, the Civil Aviation Authority Singapore, which has one of the most liberalized regulation policies, has been evaluated. The positive and negative effects of implementing the model of Singapore, at the Ankara Airport which has a capacity of 25M passenger per year has been determined. For data and statistics figures from IATA have been collected. The last part contains the conclusion. For this research, quantitative methods have been used, along with the descriptive method.