The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of their open-sky policy on the passenger markets in terms of numerical performance on tourism and air transport. This study gathered two kinds of data to examine and test for evaluating the effects of open-sky policy on the tourism and air transport markets. The first kind of data is collected from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau for tourists. The second kind of data comes from the Civil Aeronautical Administration (CAA) of Taiwan for air transport. Analysis data are counted in months between January 2009 and September 2014. The analyzed results of descriptive statistics from the officially published data in Taiwan reveal that Taiwanese tourists traveling to Japan were higher than the number of Japanese coming to Taiwan after performing the open-sky policy. However, the Chow-test results show significant differences before and after this policy on the two markets. Furthermore, the Taiwanese airlines had a greater performance growth than Japanese airlines on transport markets, including flight frequencies, numbers of new open operational airports, passenger market shares, etc. However, both Taiwanese and Japanese airlines still less use the fifth freedom to extend their services. The evaluation approach proposed by this study is suitable for other open sky markets to examine the real effects by empirical data.

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