Hava taşımacılığının Avrupalılaşması: Yakınsamanın sınırları

The European Union (EU) has impact on both members and candidate countries in various ways; it affects their economies, politics, social and institutional structures. The EU deliberately affects the members or candidate countries through its political, administrative or legislative tools and occasionally the countries just constrained to come in line with the general policies and practices in the EU. Recently, the "Europeanization" approach is quite frequently used to explain the European Union impact. In this dissertation, the impact of the European Union on Air Transportation, change in economic and policy behaviour and institutional change are researched. The reason for choosing air transportation policy as a research area is the extensive economic and technical harmonization among EU member states, but lack of cohesion at policy level. This situation facilitates to analyze the impact of the EU and the change occurred after this impact indicating limits of convergence. In order to realize this research, firstly, a theoretical framework is drawn accompanied by 'Institutionalism' and then the Air Transportation Policy of the European Union evaluated taking Deregulation, Europeanization and Liberalization into consideration while limits of convergence determined. Keywords: Air Transport, Liberalization, Europeanization, Deregulation.