Aviation safety: Comparing national and regional governmental regulatory commercial oversight affiliations

Statistics indicate that there has been a tremendous improvement in international aviation safety since the end of World War II. Nevertheless, recent events show limitations to traditional approaches to safety. As airline flight traffic increased privatization of aviation due to aviation liberalization, new approaches are required to prevent a rise in the number of accidents. The ever-increasing scope of aviation safety initiatives across the globe justifies a higher level of coordination. The creation of regional aviation organizations, comprised of experts from multiple nations, would ensure that benefits are shared and that an unnecessary duplication of effort is avoided. Because international airline safety is currently a function of national regulatory oversight, the amalgamation of national programs into regional organizations would decrease accidents through the sharing of resources and the advantages of an economy of scale. It was determined in the study that current aviation regulations are not capable of global oversight. A quasi-experimental 2 x 2 factorial design was used in this study and results through ANOVA. As well as identifying whether changes in the two independent variables had a significant effect on the dependent variable, the methodology indentified the interactions among the independent variables and dependent variable. The differing accident rates among different nations indicate a stark contrast and reveal the effects of differing regulations. As the privatization of aviation continues, regulatory oversight must advance in tandem. As markets globalize and an increasing proportion of business activity transcends national borders, institutions are needed to help manage, regulate, and police the global marketplace and promote establishment of multinational treaties to govern the global business system. Areas for future research include a consideration of state accident rates in relation to deregulation, state owned airlines, and strategic alliances.