Govt approves air services pact with UAE

New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to enable any number of airlines to fly to each other's destinations and enter into commercial agreements and code-share.
The Cabinet approved the proposed air services agreement, which would be signed soon. Discussions between the two sides on it were held in February this year, an official spokesperson said. Under the agreement, which supersedes the previous one signed in 1989, both countries would be entitled to designate any number of airlines for operating mutually agreed services and enter into cooperative marketing arrangements like code- share or other commercial arrangements.
The designated airlines would be free to decide tariffs at reasonable levels, based on commercial considerations, the agreement says, adding that each of the parties would have the right to intervene to prevent tariffs which would constitute “anti-compet itive behaviour” or would “cripple”competition on a route.
Both countries, under the agreement, would follow the obligations to protect the security of civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference, the spokesperson said.
27/11/08 Business Line

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Categories: Foreign Nov 2008, Indian Aviation- In General Nov 2008