Havel (director, International Aviation Law Institute, DePaul University) argues that national laws and bilateral agreements prohibit airlines from becoming global service providers. In this follow up to his 1997 In Search of Open Skies: Law and Policy for a New Era in International Aviation, he describes the efforts of leaders in the US and the EU to create a truly open aviation marketplace. He chronicles the history of the March 2008 air transport agreement between the US and the EU, and details the Chicago system of international air transport regulation, focusing on the concept of airspace sovereignty. The final chapter details the author's proposal for a second stage US/EC air transport agreement. Almost every page is more than half taken up by footnotes. Appendices provide relevant agreements from 1995 and 2007, and the author's model US open skies agreement, plus tables of cases and administrative proceedings. The book is distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
