Open Skies Air Transport AgreementsOpen Skies Air Transport Agreement • January 16th, 2022
What are Open Skies Agreements? Open Skies agreements are a form of air transport agreement that the U.S. government negotiates with foreign government partners to provide rights for airlines to offer international passenger and cargo services. They are pro-consumer, pro-competition, and pro-growth. As such, Open Skies Agreements promote increased travel and trade, spur the creation of high-quality jobs, and facilitate broad economic growth. Their provisions include reciprocal obligations to eliminate government intervention in commercial air carrier decisions about routes, capacity, frequencies, and pricing, thereby freeing airlines to provide more affordable, convenient, and efficient air services to consumers and shippers. Open Skies agreements improve flexibility for airline operations, expand cooperative marketing opportunities between airlines, enable global express delivery cargo networks, liberalize charter regulations, and commit governments to high standards of aviation safet
The US/Nigeria ‘Open Skies’ Air Transport Agreement:Open Skies Air Transport Agreement • June 6th, 2024
The United States of America (the “US”) and Nigeria (the “Parties”) on May 13, 2024, announced that they have begun in earnest the implementation of the US/Nigeria ‘Open Skies’ Air Transport Agreement (the “Agreement”). Elements of the Agreement had been provisionally and sporadically applied since it was signed over two decades ago in August 2000.
Eu Us Open Skies Air Transport AgreementOpen Skies Air Transport Agreement • September 2nd, 2021
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Skies Open over New AgreementOpen Skies Air Transport Agreement • June 8th, 2007
On March 22 2007 the EU transport ministers unanimously approved the Open Skies Air Transport Agreement between the European Union, its member states and the United States. On April 30 2007 at the US-EU summit in Washington DC the agreement was executed by the US secretary of state, the German minister for transport and the European Commission vice president. The agreement will become effective on March 30 2008 and will replace existing bilateral air transport agreements between the United States and individual EU countries that were deemed illegal by the European Court of Justice. The agreement does not require congressional approval and no legislation has yet been introduced to curtail its efficacy.
