HAVAYOLU ULAŞTIRMASI SEKTÖRÜNÜN REKABETÇİ YAPISI: TÜRK HAVAYOLU ULAŞTIRMASININ AÇILIM DÖNEMİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME.

Transportation sector today, forms an important part of the economy. Moreover, transportation sector is in a close connection with many other sectors and serves as understructure for them. Its close connections to technology leads to a continuous change and development in the transportation sector. This developing structure can explain the reason for high number of studies on detecting the change. One of the objectives of this paper is to evaluate the change and development of Turkish air transportation sector at the beginning of its reformation period. The study aims also to conduct an analysis on the competitive structure of the Turkish air transportation sector within a comparative manner. The critical point of the sectoral success can be seen as the achievement of the selected sectoral actors in the competitive atmosphere. The inspection of the Turkish air transportation shows that there are some delays in interpreting the global developments. This result is shared also by the results of the analysis of the comparative factor productivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]