Saturday, April 30, 2011

UAE Signs ‘Open Sky’ Agreement with Albania

The United Arab Emirates has initialed an “open sky” Air Services Agreement and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Albania in Dubai.WAM DubaiThe agreement was initialed by Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director General of the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority, GCAA and Ernest Noka, Albania’s deputy minister of transport.

Representatives from the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Sharjah Department of Civil Aviation, Ras Al Khaimah Department of Civil Aviation, Etihad Airways, Emirates Airline and Fly Dubai attended the negotiations.

The two delegations agreed that a number of designated airlines will have the right to fly between the two countries.

The UAE delegation designated Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, Air Arabia, RAK Airways, and FlyDubai as UAE national airlines under the Agreement. The Albanian delegation designated Albanian Airlines and Belleair as its designated airlines.

The agreement allows full flexibility on the routes, capacity, frequency and types of aircraft on any type of service (passenger or cargo) on the routes between Albania and the UAE.

In addition, both parties agreed to allow unrestricted non-scheduled operations between the two countries.

Source: AlbanianEconomy.com (29/04/2011).

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