The legal nature of international private airports

Sobre la naturaleza jurídica de los aeropuertos privados internacionales

Abstract

This work intends to analyze the legal nature of private international airports in Administrative Law. For this purpose, initially it is examined how the public interest, in a social and democratic State of Law, is materialized in the reality of Administrative Law, especially in the notions of lnfrastructure Law, which are also the object of analysis in this study. Thus, later on, the paper identifies and clarifies the principies of lnfrastructure Administrative Law that confirm the high public interest existing in international airports. Then, structured in Comparative Law, various options and modalities of airport ownership and their management or governance are presented, from strictly public ownership and management to totally private airports in their construction and operation. This approach is essential for investigating the aspects of airport infrastructure that get closer and distance themselves from the notion of public service and what should be the most suitable and appropriate legal form for the preservation of the public interest in the construction and operation of these airport infrastructures.