Potential gains from ANSP mergers in Europe (original) (raw)

This research identifies potential gains of different merger scenarios between air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in Europe, as well as how these potential gains might be captured, in order to offer ANSPs and policymakers support for the Single European Sky (SES) II+ package implementation. While existing research has mainly looked into the existence of economies of scale or into efficiency of functional airspace blocks (FABs), there is a need for a research shift towards other potential consolidation scenarios. The potential gains of such merger scenarios has not yet been analysed thoroughly, which is the main contribution of this paper. The results suggest that the potential merger gains of the analysed scenarios are mainly due to improvements in technical efficiency which could possibly also be achieved by improving the current ANSP performance scheme.