Hi, sorry I know it’s a very niche topic but I’m writing a Uni assignment on Open Skies agreements and I don’t understand them at all. Does it relate to the freedoms of the air?
I understand if most people don’t understand either but hopefully there is one or two people out there who can help!
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The simplest way I can do it is it grants airlines 5 freedoms.
1 – The right of airlines to fly over a foreign country without landing on it’s way to a third country. EG, a BA flight flying over France on it’s way to Spain.
2 – The right of airlines to land in a foreign country for technical stops. EG a flight From London to Sidney landing in Calcutta for refuelling.
3 – The right to fly from one country to an other country. EG , London to Paris.
4 – The right to fly from one country to an other country on a flight originating or terminating in it’s own country. EG Taking the Istanbul to Paris leg on an American Airlines flight going to New York
5 – The right to carry passengers from one foreign country to an other foreign country via their own country. EG, A Lisbon to Rome flight on Air France going Lisbon, Paris, Rome.
Russia was never part of the Open Skies agreement, instead charging airlines to use it’s own airspace. All they had to do is be slightly cheaper than using the Polar routes to Asia or flying through Anchorage like it used to be in the USSR days (Or now thanks to the war)
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