- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Map
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two Gibraltar Incommunicado
- Three The Lisbon Agreement
- Four Spain's Approaches to NATO
- Five ‘Different and Distant’? the Falklands/Malvinas Dispute
- Six Spain Joins NATO
- Seven The Border Remains Closed
- Eight Felipe Opens the Gates
- Nine Towards the Brussels Declaration
- Ten The Border is Fully Opened: Negotiations Get Under Way
- Eleven Osmosis Begins
- Twelve Sovereignty and Sovereigns
- Thirteen Into Felipe's Second Term: Guards and Gates
- Fourteen The Battle over the Airport
- Fifteen Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
- Sixteen First Visits by First Ladies
- Seventeen The Bossano Strategy
- Eighteen Spain's Role in Death on the Rock
- Nineteen A European Hong Kong?
- Twenty Tackling Money-Laundering and Smuggling
- Twenty-One Felipe Visits London
- Twenty-Two Four More Years for Joe Bossano
- Twenty-Three The External Frontier Issue Remains Unresolved
- Twenty-Four Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Treaty of Utrecht (2–13 July 1713)
- Appendix 2 The Lisbon Agreement (10 April 1980)
- Appendix 3 The Brussels Declaration (27 November 1984)
- Appendix 4 The Government of Gibraltar
- Bibliography
- Index
The Battle over the Airport
The Battle over the Airport
January-December 1987
- Chapter:
- (p.114) Fourteen The Battle over the Airport
- Source:
- A Stone in Spain's Shoe
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter discusses the impact of the Gibraltar airport issue on Spain's relations with its EC partners. On 24 June 1987, during a meeting of EC Ministers of Transport in Luxembourg, Spain threatened to refuse to agree to the deregulation of commercial air traffic. Agreement had been reached on the reduction of fare schedules and the removal of the 50–50 agreement on the distribution of seat capacity between airlines. But there was also a ‘market access’ proposal to allow regular flights to major regional airports from any member country using planes with a maximum seating capacity of seventy passengers. Spain argued that if Gibraltar were included in the agreement it would constitute implicit recognition of the airport as British and therefore recognition of British sovereignty over the isthmus. The issue was to dominate the rest of the year in Anglo–Spanish relations.
Keywords: Gibraltar airport, European Community, sovereignty, market access, commercial air traffic
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Map
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two Gibraltar Incommunicado
- Three The Lisbon Agreement
- Four Spain's Approaches to NATO
- Five ‘Different and Distant’? the Falklands/Malvinas Dispute
- Six Spain Joins NATO
- Seven The Border Remains Closed
- Eight Felipe Opens the Gates
- Nine Towards the Brussels Declaration
- Ten The Border is Fully Opened: Negotiations Get Under Way
- Eleven Osmosis Begins
- Twelve Sovereignty and Sovereigns
- Thirteen Into Felipe's Second Term: Guards and Gates
- Fourteen The Battle over the Airport
- Fifteen Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
- Sixteen First Visits by First Ladies
- Seventeen The Bossano Strategy
- Eighteen Spain's Role in Death on the Rock
- Nineteen A European Hong Kong?
- Twenty Tackling Money-Laundering and Smuggling
- Twenty-One Felipe Visits London
- Twenty-Two Four More Years for Joe Bossano
- Twenty-Three The External Frontier Issue Remains Unresolved
- Twenty-Four Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Treaty of Utrecht (2–13 July 1713)
- Appendix 2 The Lisbon Agreement (10 April 1980)
- Appendix 3 The Brussels Declaration (27 November 1984)
- Appendix 4 The Government of Gibraltar
- Bibliography
- Index
