Impactos do processo de liberalização do mercado de transporte aéreo em Moçambique: Desafios e Possibilidades para as Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, (LAM)

Abstract

The present work analyzes the effects of the air transport liberalization process in Mozambique in the context of SADC and within the scope of the Yamoussoukro Declaration (DY), for the development of African civil aviation, taking into account the challenges and possibilities for the national airline LAM. The theoretical development of the research makes an analogy to two economic policies of the air transport, namely, State protectionism and air transport liberalization. It also describes the motivations, results and economic impacts of the liberalization of the air Transport. In the case study, the process of liberalization in Mozambique is analyzed and its impacts. One of the major findings of the work lies in the fact that the liberalization of air transport stimulate the whole economy because the air transport sector has a chain effect on different branches of economic activity, such as tourism, commerce and business. Besides whereas liberalized air transport offers consumers a wider choice services, at lower prices, thanks to greater competition in the market, guaranteeing thus greater social and territorial access. In Mozambique due to the liberalization of domestic air transport, there was a series of benefits, such as: increase in the offer of air services, prices closer to the consumer, bigger frequency in flights, levels considerable in punctuality. Consequently, there was an increase in the demand for air transport in the country, mainly in the leisure segment.(Nossa Tradução)