The most liberal category of bilateral or multilateral air transport agreement, minimizing government restrictions on which airlines may fly which international routes and how often, in contrast to the tightly negotiated route-and-capacity agreements descended from the 1946 Bermuda Agreement. The EU-US Open Skies Agreement, effective 2008, is the leading concrete example, letting any airline of the European Union and any airline of the United States fly between any point in one and any point in the other.
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Core ConcernRemoving government restrictions on which airlines may fly which international routes 1 FAQs
What is the leading example of an open skies agreement?
The EU-US Open Skies Agreement, effective 2008, letting any European Union airline and any United States airline fly between any point in one and any point in the other.
An open skies agreement is the most liberal category of bilateral or multilateral air transport agreement, minimizing government restrictions on which airlines may fly which international routes and how often, in contrast to the tightly negotiated route-and-capacity agreements descended from the 1946 Bermuda Agreement. The EU-US Open Skies Agreement, effective 2008, is the leading concrete example, letting any airline of the European Union and any airline of the United States fly between any point in one and any point in the other.
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Preceded By
US domestic airline deregulation under the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act preceded, and its architects went on to help negotiate, the international open skies liberalization that followed from the late 1970s onward.
The freedoms of the air, agreed at the 1944 Chicago Convention, form the building blocks of international route rights that later, more liberal open skies agreements (the EU-US agreement effective 2008 is the leading example) grant with fewer restrictions.
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1. Wikipedia: EU-US Open Skies Agreement
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The agreement allows any airline of the European Union and any airline of the United States to fly between any point in the European Union and any point in the United States.
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