US and Israel Reach Open Skies Aviation Agreement
The US Secretary of Transport Ray LaHood has announced that Israel is to become part of the Open-Skies aviation agreement, becoming the 97th US Open Skies partner.
Under this arrangement the carriers of both countries will enjoy more liberal air travel.
Secretary LaHood said: “This agreement is good news for both countries. Consumers, airlines and economies of both the United States and Israel will enjoy the benefits of competitive pricing and more convenient service.”
The new agreement will allow airlines from both countries to choose routes and destinations according to consumer demand for both passenger and cargo services. There will be no restriction on the numbers of carriers allowed to fly between the two countries or indeed on the number of flights they can operate, according to Travel Daily News.
Under the Open-Skies agreement there will be unlimited opportunities for US and Israeli carriers to set up cooperative marketing arrangements including code-sharing in order to better serve the market.
The new move signifies a considerable improvement on the previous agreement, which despite some liberality did contain restrictions on code-sharing opportunities and limits on the cities available for the airlines to serve.
Under Open-Skies all these restrictions will be entirely removed, following a formal signing, and will be replaced by important new country code-share opportunities for airlines in Israel and the US.
It was back in 1979 that the US began to pursue Open Skies agreements and by 1982 had signed 23 bilateral air service agreements with individual countries, mainly smaller nations, worldwide. This was followed by a few agreements with individual European states in the 1990s.
A milestone was reached in 1992 when The Netherlands signed with the US the first Open Skies agreement, which conferred on both countries mutually unrestricted landing rights.
Travel Industry news posted by Marilyn on 27 April 2010
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