The
United Arab Emirates has said that it is keen to have an open-sky agreement
with India. It asked India to look at Open-sky policy separately from fifth and
sixth freedoms (of air). The issue of
fifth and sixth freedoms of air has been a sore point between airlines in India
and the UAE.
Open
Sky Policy:-
·
The
agreement will not only encourage connectivity and passenger travel between the
two countries, but will also result in reduction in airfares on these routes.
·
The
National Civil Aviation Policy, 2016, allows the government to enter into an
‘open sky’ air services agreement on a reciprocal basis with SAARC nations as
well as countries beyond a 5,000 kilometre radius from New Delhi.
·
It
implies that nations within this distance need to enter into a bilateral
agreement and mutually determine the number of flights that their airlines can
operate between the two countries.
·
India
has already signed open sky agreements with Greece, Jamaica, Guyana, Czech
Republic, Finland, Spain and Sri Lanka.
Freedoms
of air:-
International
air travel is governed by various freedoms of air.
The
degree of “sky openness” depends on the freedoms of the air in the country
granted to foreign airlines. There are 9 such freedoms according to the 1944
Convention on International Civil Aviation.
First
freedom of air |
Allows
a carrier to take off from its home state. |
Second
freedom of air |
Allows
it to land in a second country. |
Third
freedom of air |
Allow
the airline to take off from the country it has landed in and come back to
land at its home base. |
Fourth
freedom of air |
|
Fifth
freedom of air |
allow
airlines to carry passengers picked from one country and fly them to a third
country rather than the country from which the airline originated. |
Sixth
freedom of ar |
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