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Giovanni Marchiafava
The article aims to consider the airport cooperation's development due to the airport privatization process and the air transport liberalization. Regarding the different types of airport collaboration, the author examines the sister airports agreements reached among airport operators to share and transfer know-how and operating procedures. In view of the airport operators' intention to not creating legal relationships by these agreements finalized by a memorandum of understanding, the author defines them as gentlemen's agreements binding by honour only. This definition does not exclude that it can be established the accordance of the sister airports agreements with anti trust regulation. Although the extensive adoption of such agreements, their real benefits have not been perceived yet. Through the sister airports agreements since the year two thousand it has been set up in the airport industry a new form of cooperation that until then it has been contractual.
