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（bilateral open skies agreements），以放松美国国际航线的航空业竞争管制，但目前学界对这类协议对旅客福利的影响，以及美国与更多国家谈判达成此类协议所能带来的收益，仍知之甚少。本研究构建了国际航空业竞争模型，用以评估开放天空协议对机票票价与航班频次的影响。研究结果显示，此类协议已为旅客带来了至少每年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，旅客还可额外获得40亿美元的收益。（JEL分类号：D12、L11、L51、L93、L98）