Air Transport News.Sep 10, 2007 Chile and India have signed a bilateral agreement establishing an open skies  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . policy for air cargo air cargo: see aviation. and liberalizing passenger transport services, Chile's Civil Aeronautic aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Council (JAC JAC Journal of Antimicrobial ChemotherapyJAC Joint Astronomy Centre JAC Joint Advisory Committee (Board of Directors for SEI) JAC John Abbott College JAC Juvenile Assessment Center JAC Joint Analysis Center ) said on Monday. The two countries previously had a more limited agreement, but the new treaty grants cargo transport "unlimited numbers of these services from and to Chile or India, using any type of aircraft and with full traffic rights to, from, or via any intermediary," the government said in a statement. The statement said rights to cabotage cab·o·tage n. 1. Trade or navigation in coastal waters. 2. The exclusive right of a country to operate the air traffic within its territory. -- the transport of cargo between two points within a country by a foreign carrier -- were excluded. Governments of Chile and India said the agreement would also help to increase air passenger traffic between the two countries. The Chilean government said trade between Chile and India has increased six times in the last five years. Sep 4, 2007 EU climate group recommends tighter controls on aviation. Environmental group Friends of the Earth has commissioned a report that recommends more taxes on the aviation industry as a way to encourage fuel efficiency and cut carbon emissions. Suggestions include a fuel tax and a value-added tax value-added tax (VAT), levy imposed on business at all levels of the manufacture and production of a good or service and based on the increase in price, or value, provided by each level. on passenger tickets. Sep 4, 2007 Travel to and from China, the world's fourth-largest economy, is expected to continue climbing alongside its double-digit economic growth, dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. restrictions and increasingly open skies. Morgan Stanley estimates that global airline seat capacity will expand 3.8 percent in 2007 and 5.2 percent in 2008 -- driven largely by Asia. For Asia alone, those estimates rise to 8-9 percent for 2008-09, versus 5 percent in 2007. Sep 4, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new real-time service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status, delays, security wait times via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
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