Replication data for: Open Skies: Estimating Travelers' Benefits from Free Trade in Airline Services

The United States has negotiated bilateral open skies agreements to deregulate airline competition on US international routes, but little is known about their effects on travelers' welfare and the gains from the US negotiating agreements with more countries. We develop a model of international airline competition to estimate the effects of open skies agreements on fares and flight frequency. We find the agreements have generated at least $4 billion in annual gains to travelers and that travelers would gain an additional $4 billion if the US negotiated agreements with other countries that have a significant amount of international passenger traffic. (JEL D12, L11, L51, L93, L98)美国已通过谈判达成双边开放天空协议，以放松对美国国际航线的航空竞争管制，但目前学界对这些协议对旅客福利的影响，以及美国与更多国家谈判此类协议所能带来的收益，尚所知甚少。我们构建了一个国际航空竞争模型，用以估算开放天空协议对机票价格与航班频次的影响。研究发现，此类协议每年至少为旅客带来了40亿美元的福利增益；若美国与其他拥有大量国际客运量的国家达成此类协议，旅客还将额外获得40亿美元的收益。（JEL分类号：D12、L11、L51、L93、L98）