why can some airlines stop over a country and then continue on another country? Wouldn’t the airline “steal” a share of the passengers from the host country?
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example: KLM goes from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and then it continues to Jakarta.
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[It’s part of agreed upon methods of air travel. ](https://youtu.be/thqbjA2DC-E)
While now the flights may not physically need to stop, before they would.
Say a flight goes from India to the UK on British Airways. Endpoint in London.
If the plane needs fuel in Romania and stops, how is that any different than running a flight from Romania to London?
Or if a British flight from Berlin, to London, goes to New York, it technically is two segments that both have end points in London.
Instead of running 2 separate flights, if the plane is already heading that direction then the route can just have an end point in the destination country.
Freedom 5 and 6 of the international agreements of air travel outline the ability to do this as long as the route starts or ends in the home country.
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