Sean Barrett is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Preface; Regulating Europe's Skies 1. The Defeat of Regulatory Capture 2. A Europe of National Airlines 3. Deregulating the Dublin-London Route 4. Ryanair's Market Entry 5. The Sustainability of the Ryanair Model 6. The New Entrant Full-Service Airline 7. Commercialising a National Airline 8. Airport Competition- Low Cost Airlines and Low Cost Airports 9. Regulating and Dismantling a National Airport Monopoly - a Case Study 10. A Sector Transformed

Almost 117 million passengers flew on Europe's low cost airlines in 2006. This statistic would have seemed beyond belief in the mid-1980s when air transport was a heavily regulated sphere.

This book examines the deregulation which has taken place since then and in particular looks at the single most important reprurcussion of the deregulation of Europe's skies - the rise of the low cost airline. Sean Barret has been involved in the debates surrounding this right from the start and is well placed to provide a scholarly study of the issue. The book spends much time looking at the success of Ryanair in this period - this provides the perfect case study given the dominant role that the company has taken up over recent years.