Cabinet approves amendments of Air Services Agreement with Denmark, Norway, Sweden

The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the following amendments / insertion of the new Articles in the existing Air Services Agreement between Government of India and Governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden:
(i) Article 9 (Capacity Provisions) has been amended by removing subsection 4 thereof which required advance agreement between the designated airlines of the contracting parties about their operational details etc.
(ii) Article 10 (Tariffs) has been amended – As per this amended article, the designated airlines of the respective parties are free to decide the fares based on commercial considerations and are not required to file tariffs for international air services between the territories of the parties.
(iii) Article 15 (Aviation Security) has been re-drafted as per our model standard clause.
(iv) A new Article has been introduced with regard to safety provision. This is as per our model standard clause
(v) A new Article has been introduced with regard to Co-operative Marketing arrangements, which would enable the designated airlines of both sides to operate code-share flights including third country code share.
11/10/07 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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Categories: Foreign Oct 2007