Airport Privatization: Issues Related to the Sale of U.S. Commercial Airports

00722654https://doi.org/10.21949/14031111996PDFTech ReportGAO/T-RCED-96-82AirportsPrivatizationFinancingLegal constraintsRegulatory constraintsEconomic analysisBenefit cost analysisAirport salesOperational agreementsUnited StatesDillingham, Gerald L.United States. Government Accountability OfficeNTL-AVIATION-Airports and FacilitiesNTL-AVIATION-Aviation Economics and FinanceNTL-AVIATION-Aviation Planning and PolicyUS Transportation CollectionCongressional testimony by Gerald L. Dillingham, Associate Director,Transportation and Telecommunications Issues, Resources, Community, andEconomic Development Division, General Accounting Office, on the currentextent of private sector participation at commercial airports in the UnitedStates and foreign countries, the incentives and impediments to more extensiveforms of privatization, such as selling an airport outright; and theimplications arising from more extensive privatization for major stakeholders,such as passengers, airlines, and government. 16p.84