Sustainable Tourism Law

776 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM LAW many cases for profit. The original idea of the airport was left behind to be used only for the entry and exit of aircrafts. Unlike other sciences that approached the new airport phenomenon celebrating the change, contributing to its development, modernization, professionalization, etc. in legal science, and to the same extent, in regulatory science, the mutation of DNA, the metamorphosis of the airport, was traumatic, even strongly opposed for many years 1 . In spite of the attacks, the States consolidated the new airport paradigm and the rejection was surpassed in the time. Far from all the predictions of catastrophes and apocalypse, the reality was knocking down, one by one. The then president of Airport Council International of North America (ACI-NA), described with great lucidity, as the ten myths about the airports 2 . In effect, the new airport policy was deepened as investments began to be made. The airport capacity began to meet the demand of the commercial market, safety was consolidated in the vast majority of airports and services were provided with greater quality, both for the airport operator’s customers, that is to say the carriers and air operators, as well as for the airport users, that is to say the passengers and visitors, forming the latter, a new category of individuals subject to the relationship airport law. Aeronautical lawhas been, is andwill be, without doubt, the great contribution of legal science to the progress and aviation development. It is an effective legal system in the sense that allowed the progress and massification of air transport, with all the benefits that this brought to the growth and development of the global society. This is not the opportunity to state the reasons, or the causes, for which the airport service was not assimilated by the aeronautical law. 1 Bisignani, Giovani, “Shaking the Skies: The Untold Story of Change in Aviation Since 9/11 and the Biggest Turnaround of an International Organization in History”. March, 2014. This work is paradigmatic. Summarizes with clear clarity, the ideology that founded the legal, regulatory and political position anti-airports until the end of the first decade of the 21st century.. 2 David Z. Plavin, “The ten main myths about airports: The experience of the United States”. ACI North America- President. April 15, 2004. The ten myths listed are: Myth # 1: The “Government” is the owner and oper- ates the airports of the United States, Myth # 2: Airlines pay for everything, Myth # 3: Airports need the credit of the airline to support the debt, Myth # 4: Airlines operate without subsidies, Myth # 5: North American airports are heavily subsidized, Myth # 6: Airports are highly profitable and have not had problems to overcome “ the perfect storm “, Myth # 7: Airports are mainly responsible for the financial constraints that affect airlines, Myth # 8: The airlines do it all; airports do not play any real role, Myth # 9: Airports are monopolies, in addition to being preda- tory and out of control, Myth # 10: Airports are conspiring with airlines to limit competition against new entrants, carriers Low Cost.