Aviation Intelligence Reporter – June 2007
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It seems that every day now, new initiatives and developments are announced building
on the new (yet to be implemented) EU-US bilateral agreement. Some of these are
announcements are additional capacity, capitalising on the new regulatory framework in
a completely conventional, and foreseeable way; others are new service offerings that
are apparently opening up as a result of the new arrangements. Geoff Dixon, CEO of
Qantas has been quoted saying that he believes that the entire aviation world will be
liberalised by 2015. That is starting to look possible. Furthermore, this trend is
spreading. This month Japan announced a substantial liberalisation of its air services
approach, Singapore continued to open new routes (it signed an open skies deal with
Belgium) and China and the US significantly opened the cargo capacity between their
two countries.
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