| Summary: | Since the 2004 and 2005 airport reforms in France, the air transport market has been undergoing major changes. Low cost airlines have become key players in competition with traditional airlines. For their part, local authorities, which now manage decentralized airports, must adopt the best strategies to develop and/or sustain their infrastructures. Based on a multi-agent computer simulation using the theory of spatial and evolutionary games, we analyze the effects for the different actors (airport managers, airlines and by extension the territories) of the implementation of cooperative strategies (main objective of the airport reform) for regional and decentralized airports. While this simulation shows that cooperation between regional and local airports is unlikely, it underlines that cooperation between airports of the same category (local/local, regional/regional) increases their resilience. In this perspective, it could be in the interest of local authorities to promote this type of strategy. The simulation shows, however, that the counterpart of cooperation is a lower average gain for the airports that have chosen to coalesce. Also, the recent transfer of some regional airports as well as the delegation of many local airports to the private sector could go against the stated objective of the reform.
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