“…In this regard, the impact of the OSA between the European Union and Morocco may be strongly influenced by the entry of low-cost airlines as, in contrast to previous studies, our analysis focuses on short-haul or medium-haul routes. In this regard, some few works have analyzed the impact of low-cost airlines on traffic at the route level with contradictory results (Bettini and Oliveira, 2008;Goolsbee and Syverson, 2008;Fageda, 2014). Here, we may provide new insights about the impact of low-cost airlines on route traffic as their entry in the Morocco market was restricted in the pre-liberalization period.…”