103In that regard, it should be noted that the Commission drew up, first of all, an analytical framework for the definition of the relevant market for the various relevant routes, irrespective of whether airport pairs or city pairs were being analysed (section 6.3.3 of the contested decision). The different criteria used to characterise the substitutability of scheduled air transport services departing from different airports are set out in recital 99. Those criteria are as follows: distances and travelling times using the indicative benchmark of 100 km or one hour driving time, the views of competitors, the views of the airports concerned and of Member States’ civil aviation authorities, the estimated proportion of leisure passengers on a route, the so-called ‘airport system’ pursuant to Annex II to Regulation No 2408/92, marketing practices, whether transport services exist between the secondary airports and certain cities, and the result of the Commission’s price correlation analysis for 17 city-pair routes out of Dublin.
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