The Demand For Domestic Air Transport in Ethiopia
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2001-07
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Abstract
Since 1975, for about 20 years, air transport service had been provided by single Government
enterprise, Ethiopian Airlines. The sector was moderately opened to private investors by the
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Investment Proclamation No. 3711996. The
restrictive provisions of this proclamation permit only Ethiopian nationals to invest in this
sector using aircraft of maximum loading capacity up to 20-passenger or cargo capacity up
to 2700kg. However, the proclamation plays no significant role in enhancing the capacity and
competition in the overall domestic passenger air transport service and none in scheduled
one.
It is hypothesized that air travel demand is determined by income of the population, price of
air travel, access to alternative means of transport and price of competing service.
Furthermore, the demand of air travel is expected to be price inelastic. Using quarterly time
series data and co-integration analysis the long- run relationship result suggested that price
of air travel, income and access to alternative means of transport significantly determine the
demand for air travel while price of competing service is insignificant. In the short-run
analysis only price of air travel is found to be significant while the other variables are not
significantly different from zero. The result also suggested that the price elasticity of demand
for air travel is unitary. The policy conclusion is that price is a significant factor determining
schedule domestic air transport demand and hence private participation, competitiveness and
supply of the service in Ethiopia.
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Demand For Domestic, Transport in Ethiopia